IDENTIFIERS
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id:	318985
accession number:	P.1-2016

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Monday 23 March 2026
updated:	Monday 23 March 2026

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Album of Japanese origin with printed title-cartouche and handwritten inscription on the first fold, containing 20 triptychs (60 sheets) printed in colours from woodblocks, with special printing effects such as burnishing (shomenzuri and tsuyazuri) and blind-embossing (karazuri). The prints come from a set of 40 triptychs entitled Chiyoda no o-oku (The Inner Precincts at Chiyoda [Castle]), designed by Yōshū Chikanobu and published by Fukuda Hatsujirō in Tokyo in 1895-6. Each triptych bears the artist’s signature, the publisher’s fish or double-fish mark, and a printed seal with the name of the block-carver. The series title is in the tall cartouche, with the individual scene’s title below (within the cartouche).
title:	album

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: Given anonymously, 2016

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/318985





TECHNIQUES
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colour printing
TECHNIQUES
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woodblock

CATEGORIES
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category: print
category: album

DATING
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creation date:	1895 - 1896
creation date earliest:	1895
creation date latest:	1896
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Chikanobu, Yôshû