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Genji and a boy attendant outside a house on a moonlit night. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1857.
- Utagawa, Kunisada, 1823-1880
- Date
- 1857
- Reference
- 36769i
- Pictures
- Online
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Credit: Genji and a boy attendant outside a house on a moonlit night. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1857. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
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About this work
Description
Both figures are in fashionable attire: these prints displayed the most contemporary patterns
From a set reworking scenes from the famous tenth and eleventh century novel 'Tale of ginji' by Murasaki Shikibu: this scene shows an episode in chapter 3, the shell of the locust. Kunisada I, began the vogue for 'contemporary' versions of Genji
Publication/Creation
Edo [Tokyo] : [publisher not identified], 1857.
Physical description
1 print : woodcut, printed in colours
Contributors
Lettering
Kōchōrō Kunisada-ga
Lettering note
Bears publisher's mark, censor's seal and set title
Line of poetry in the white shell; the red shell gives the chapter number and also the symbol linked to each chapter
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 36769i
Type/Technique
Languages
- Japanese
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores