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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Date
- post 1716
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodblock print; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.3 x 17.9 cm
- Signature & date
Signed u.l., in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "Yamato-e-shi Nishikawa Sukenobu hitsu [Drawn by Nishikawa Sukenobu, yamato-e painter]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1930
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 4349
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Nishikawa Sukenobu
Works in the collection
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About
Sukenobu was a leading Kyoto master who turned from classical subjects to the depiction of contemporary life. This image is a fine example of a 'sumizuri-e' (ink print), the basis of all prints.
The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.248.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
The Floating World: Japan's World of transient pleasures, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 May 1994–17 Jul 1994
Beauty and Desire in Edo period Japan, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 06 Jun 1998–09 Aug 1998
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Gary Hickey, Beauty & desire in Edo period Japan, Parkes, 1998, 44, 45 (colour illus.), 71. plate no. 2
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Jackie Menzies, The Floating World: Japan's world of transient pleasures, Sydney, 1994. cat.no. M24
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'The Floating World', Sydney, 2003, 248 (colour illus.).
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Provenance
Samurai Shōkai, Yokohama/Kanagawa/Japan, purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales 1930.