Title
Catching fireflies: Miyagi Asojirô
1855
Artist
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Details
- Alternative title
- Miyagi Asojirô
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Ansei era 1854 - 1860 → Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Date
- 1855
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
- 35.8 x 24.3 cm image; 36.2 x 24.3 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed c.l., in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "Toyokuni ga [picture by Toyokuni]'.
Not dated.- Credit
- Gift of Dr Roderick Bain 1997
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 165.1997
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Utagawa Kunisada/Toyokuni III
Works in the collection
- Share
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Heroes and Villains, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 May 2001–19 Aug 2001
Glorious, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 May 2017–06 Jan 2019
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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AJIOKA Chiaki (Curator), Heroes and villains: from Japan's floating world, Sydney, May 2001, 6. cat.no. 1.15
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