album; print

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Object Type: album; print
Museum number: 1915,0823,0.392.4
Description: Album of 25 colour woodblock prints by artists of the Utagawa school. From a set of four albums; see also 1915,0823,0.392.1, 2 and 3.
Producer name: Print artist: Utagawa Hiroshige II 二代目歌川広重 (sheet 1 (landscape)); Print artist: Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III) (sheets 1 (figures), 8-10 and 11); Print artist: Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (sheets 3 and 25); Print artist: Utagawa Kunisada II 二代歌川国貞 (sheets 3-4, 5 and 6-7); Print artist: Utagawa Yoshitora 歌川芳虎 (sheets 12, 23 and 24); Print artist: Utagawa Sadahide 歌川貞秀 (sheets 13-15); Print artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 (sheets 16-18 and 22); Print artist: Utagawa Kunihisa 歌川国久 (sheets 19-21)
Cultures/periods: Edo Period
Production date: 1855 (sheets 8-10 and 11); 1856 (sheets 12 and 24); 1857 (sheet 2); 1858 (sheet 25); 1860 (sheets 5 and 6-7); 1862 (sheets 19-21); 1863 (sheets 13-15); 1864 (sheets 1 and 16-18); 1865 (sheets 3-4)
Production place: Made in: Japan
Materials: paper
Technique: woodblock; colour
Location: Not on display
Subjects: landscape; leisure/entertainment; flower; warrior; samurai; myth/legend; arms/armour; bijin; battle; boat/ship
Associated names: Representation of: Minamoto no Yoshiie 源義家 (sheets 12 and 16-18); Representation of: Ashikaga Yoshimitsu 足利義満 (sheets 13-15)
Associated places: Named in inscription: Nippori; Topographic representation of: Fuji-san (Mount Fuji); Named in inscription: Suwa-ko; Named in inscription: Yanagi-bashi
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Transferred from: British Library
Acquisition date: 23 Aug 1915 (transfer date)
Acquisition notes: Transferred from Department of Oriental Manuscripts (August 1915)
Department: Asia
Registration number: 1915,0823,0.392.4
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 1870,0718; Other BM number: 16114.b.6 (previous British Library shelfmark); Other BM number: Album.19; Other BM number: Or.c.28/No.441 (previous British Library shelfmark)

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