Tang Lady on a White Elephant, from a set Advertising Giant Straw Works in a Fair Attraction

1820

葛飾北斎｢麦藁張細工唐女・白象｣浮世絵錦絵江戸時代

Medium: Ukiyo-e: polychrome woodblock print
Dimensions: sheet: 15 1/2 × 10 7/16 in. (39.4 × 26.5 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse
Accession Number: 1953.1.23
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: Prints
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Provenance

Mrs. Jared Kirtland Morse (Caroline Roberts Morse) (1907–1982), Cromwell, Conn.; gifted in 1953 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Bradley Michael Bailey, "Time Flies: Hokusai's Missing Crane," in "Japanese Art at Yale," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007), 154–56, 158–59, fig. 3

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Marks

Censor’s seal: Kiwame 極 (round, relief, lower left); Publisher's seal: Sōkakudō 双鶴堂 of Tsuruya Kinsuke 鶴屋金助　("Tsurukin" 鶴金　of Edo) (image of a crane round, relief, under a reverse L shape, bottom left)\r\n

Inscriptions

一丈二尺能　白象に　唐女　立丈　五尺五寸 ichi jō ni shaku no byakuzō ni tōjo tachidake go shaku go sun "A Chinese lady with 5 feet 5 inches tall is seated on a white elephant of twelve feet." (centre left)

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