Pagoda Artist: Munakata Shikō (Japanese, 1903–1975)

ca. 1935–40

Asian Art

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Sosaku hanga: monochrome woodblock print

Dimensions

sheet: 13 9/16 × 16 7/8 in. (34.5 × 42.8 cm)
image: 9 15/16 × 13 3/8 in. (25.3 × 34 cm)

Credit Line

The Henry Pearson, M.F.A. 1938, Collection; gift of Dr. Lawrence Dubin, B.S. 1955, M.D. 1958, and Mrs. Regina Dubin

Accession Number

2003.57.3

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Showa era (1926–89)

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Henry Charles Pearson (1914–2006) Collection, New York; Dr. Lawrence Dubin (1934–2018) and Regina Dubin Collection, New York; gift in 2003 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
Not Assigned
Additional information

Signed

Seal: "Shiko," cinnabar red square seal in relief, impressed at left bottom within image proper; another seal, an intaglio cinnabar red square seal, perhaps reading "Sugi ki [ni] okosu", meaning "engraved in cryptomeria wood," is impressed at the lower right margin.

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