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Maker(s):Tsukioka Settei
Culture:Japanese (1710-1786)
Title:Young Boy, page from illustrated book Wakan Meihitsu Kingyoku Gafu Kanroku [Volume six of "Famous Paintings of Japan and China"]
Date Made:ca. 1771
Type:Print
Materials:Woodblock print (woodcut): black ink on paper
Place Made:Asia; Japan; Tokyo; Osaka
Measurements:Sheet: 10 3/8 x 7 1/8 in; 26.4 x 18.1 cm; Image: 8 1/4 x 6 3/8 in; 21 x 16.2 cm
Narrative Inscription:  INSCRIPTION: recto, upp. l. (black ink, margin): [Japanese character, Kingyoku Gafu Kanroku]; INSCRIPTION: recto, lwr. l. (black ink, margin): [Japanese character, Niju nen].
Accession Number:  MH 1997.1.5
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Louis C. Black
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
A vertical black-and-white book illustration (left page): a young boy (wakashu?) tying a tanzaku verse on the branch of a cherry tree; a bamboo basket is partly visible behind his kimono; the kimono of the courtesan (from the right page) is visible here. Published by Suhara Mohe of Edo and Onogi Ichibe of Osaka. This print goes with MH 1997.1.4

Subjects:
Wood-engraving

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