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Women fulling cloth at the Jewel River of Mishima
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Details
- Series
- The Six Jewel Rivers
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1787 - 1788
- Artist/maker
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Kubo Shunman (1757 - 1820) (designer)
- Associated people
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Fushimiya Zenroku (active c. 1787 - 1792) (publisher)Daikandō (active 1740s - c. 1914) (publisher)
- Material and technique
- woodblock, printed with water-based vegetable pigments
- Dimensions
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mount 55.6 x 40.5 cm (height x width)
sheet 37.5 x 23.8 cm (height x width)
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- Technique index
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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.4089
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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. 23 on pp. 46-47, illus. p. 50
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
Kubo shunman was a pupil of Kitao Shigemasa (1739-1820) and produced relaxed and elegant colour prints influenced by Kiyonaga. He was particularly adept at the use of muted colour schemes (benigirai) in the time when the government passed sumptuary regulations during the Tenmei and Kansei periods (1781-1800) forbidding the use of bright colours. 'The six jewel river' is one of the finest works by Shunman. The six rivers are all in different areas of Japan but Shunman’s six rivers from the Mutamagawa series is shown here as a continuous image. The collection of the Ashmolean Museum lacks the fifth image, that of Ogi of Shiga.
This print is of Mishima no Tamagawa (the Jewel River of Mishima, also known as the Jewel River of Kinuta). On a windy autumn day, a beauty and her maid are standing in front of two women who are smoothing fabric by beating it on a kinuta (a wooden tool). This technique was used as a finishing touch to the garments, in order to smooth them and to enhance glossiness.
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