A Foreign Visitor Artist: Unknown

1576

Asian Art

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Monochrome woodblock print: black ink on grayish paper

Dimensions

sheet: 12 1/4 × 6 3/4 in. (31.1 × 17.2 cm)

Credit Line

Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore

Accession Number

1950.409

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese, Azuchi

Period

Momoyama period (1573–1615)

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955), New York, to 1950; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 241–242, no. 452, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Inscriptions

From right to left vertically: " The fourth year of Tensho" (corresponding to 1576 followed by a compound of cyclical year Hinoe Ne in intaglio); "Foreign Visitor" ("Raichou Toujin" in hiragana in relief); "at Azuchi in Omi Province" in kanji intaglio; "hankou" (in hentaigana for "ha" and hiragana that could mean "domain school" or plain "seal". SO 9/05

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