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The daughter of Dainagon Yukinari (Dainagon Yukinari musume, 大納言行成女)front

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The daughter of Dainagon Yukinari (Dainagon Yukinari musume, 大納言行成女)

  • Description

    The Daughter of Dainagon Yukinari, an artist, sits at her drawing table watching her cat pounce on a painting of a butterfly she has just drawn. It is so lifelike that the cat thought it was real.

  • Details

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    Series
    Lives of Wise and Heroic Women
    Associated place
    Tōkyō (place of creation)
    Tōkyō (place of publication)
    Date
    c. 1842
    Artist/maker
    Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861) (designer)
    Associated people
    Ibaya Senzaburō (active c. 1820s - c. 1870s) (publisher)
    Material and technique
    woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
    Dimensions
    frame 59.6 x 44.5 x 1.7 cm (height x width x depth)
    print 35.8 x 25 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    paper
    Technique index
    colour woodcut
    Object type index
    print
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Christ Church College, University of Oxford, 1983.
    Accession no.
    EA1983.87

Location

    • currently in research collection

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