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The daughter of Dainagon Yukinari (Dainagon Yukinari musume, 大納言行成女)
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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.
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Details
- Series
- Lives of Wise and Heroic Women
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- Date
- c. 1842
- Artist/maker
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861) (designer)
- Associated people
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Ibaya Senzaburō (active c. 1820s - c. 1870s) (publisher)
- Material and technique
- woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
- Dimensions
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frame 59.6 x 44.5 x 1.7 cm (height x width x depth)
print 35.8 x 25 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Christ Church College, University of Oxford, 1983.
- Accession no.
- EA1983.87
Location
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- currently in research collection
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