Fuku, from the Montoku Jitsuroku, by Yashima Gakutei

An image of Fuku, from the Montoku Jitsuroku. Gakutei, Yashima (Japanese, 1786(?)-1868). Surimono. Colour print from woodblocks, with metallic pigment and blind embossing. Copy A., circa 1820-circa 1823. Ukiyo-e. Poetry by Fukunoya Uchinari. Notes(s): From the series Honchoren honcho nijushiko (Twenty-four Japanese examples of filial piety for the Honcho group). This print is from a group of copies after surimono of the 1810s and 1820s, printed and published in the early 1890s by Tsumura Isakichi in Akashi, near Kobe. It is printed on slightly different paper from the others in this series exhibited here. The printing is careful but rather flat and hard, and lacks the subtlety of the originals. Such copies were probably intended to sell to foreigners. The story of the girl Fuku and her parents comes from the ten volume Montoku Jitsuroku (Actual Records of Montoku), dating from the period of the Emperor Montoku (850-858)

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Fuku, from the Montoku Jitsuroku. Gakutei, Yashima (Japanese, 1786(?)-1868). Surimono. Colour print from woodblocks, with metallic pigment and blind embossing. Copy A., circa 1820-circa 1823. Ukiyo-e. Poetry by Fukunoya Uchinari. Notes(s): From the series Honchoren honcho nijushiko (Twenty-four Japanese examples of filial piety for the Honcho group). This print is from a group of copies after surimono of the 1810s and 1820s, printed and published in the early 1890s by Tsumura Isakichi in Akashi, near Kobe. It is printed on slightly different paper from the others in this series exhibited here. The printing is careful but rather flat and hard, and lacks the subtlety of the originals. Such copies were probably intended to sell to foreigners. The story of the girl Fuku and her parents comes from the ten volume Montoku Jitsuroku (Actual Records of Montoku), dating from the period of the Emperor Montoku (850-858)

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Accession Number: P.322-1937
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/20.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Sam Cole
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 882 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 817.28kB
Exposure time: 1/250
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 20/1
Captured: 2017:09:04 09:44:42

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19th Century aged bamboo blind embossing children colour printing costume Edo Period elderly embossed embossing Fitz_PDP Gakutei Japan Japanese kettle male metallic pigment offspring old old age parents piety pigment pious poem poetry poets print surimono ukiyo-e woodblock woodcut Yashima Gakutei

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