A Foreign Visitor Yale University Art Gallery

1576

Asian Art

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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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