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A lady hanging a scroll for the New Year
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Details
- Series
- Activities of the Twelve Months
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1783
- Artist/maker
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Torii Kiyonaga (1752 - 1815) (designer)
- Material and technique
- woodblock, printed with water-based vegetable pigments
- Dimensions
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mount 81 x 28.6 cm (height x width)
print 68 x 11.5 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Mrs Allan and Mr and Mrs H. N. Spalding, 1952.
- Accession no.
- EAX.4077
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 August-30 November 2005, Beauties of the Four Seasons, Mitsuko Watanabe, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 6 on p. 12, illus. p. 13
Glossary
vegetable pigments
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vegetable pigments
Vegetable pigments were used to create coloured dyes for Japanese prints, paintings, and textiles. These pigments often faded over time due to the chemical reactions they underwent.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Beauties of the Four Seasons
A lady has just opened a box of scrolls and she is hanging one of them depicting a bamboo. In front of her lies some kagami-mochi (round rice cakes offered to the god) with a red lobster and a young pine tree, traditional New Year decorations. The flying crane design of her kimono symbolizes long life and auspiciousness. On the lid of the box is written 'Kanō-sai ga' and 'sampuku' which means three pieces painted by Kanō-sai.
Before the reform of the calendar, Japanese New Year was in Spring.
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