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Pine tree and Mount Fuji
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Description
Mount Fuji was a popular tourist destination for foreign visitors in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and the mountain became one of the most widely produced souvenir images. In this highly realistic scene, almost certainly derived from a contemporary photograph, the pine tree is depicted in cut velvet, while Mount Fuji is left uncut to heighten the sense of distance and perspective. (Exhibition number 41)
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto › Muromachi Suji (probable place of creation)Europe (original location)Asia › Japan › Honshū › Mount Fuji (subject)
- Date
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late 19th - early 20th century (1871 - 1930)
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
- Artist/maker
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probably Nishimura Sōzaemon (established c. 1670)
- Material and technique
- yūzen-birōdo (dyed silk velvet), pile partly cut; wooden frame
- Dimensions
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frame 71.8 x 62.6 x 2.3 cm (height x width x depth)
textile 67 x 58 cm sight size (height x width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Miss M. G. Hobson, 1958.
- Accession no.
- EA1958.115
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 9 November 2012-27 January 2013, Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan, Clare Pollard, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 41 p. 168, illus. p. 168
Past Exhibition
see (1)-
Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan
(from 9th Nov 2012 until 27th Jan 2013)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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