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改良貴婦人競
改良貴婦人競
Object number1994.13.9

改良貴婦人競

Date1888
Artist (Japanese, 1838 - 1912)
Publisher (Japanese)
Blockcutter (Japanese, 1844 - 1894)
CultureJapanese
MediumWoodblock print, ôban triptych mounted to paperboard
DimensionsSheet (Each): 13 7/8 x 9 1/4 in. (35.2 x 23.5 cm)
Composition: 13 7/8 x 27 7/8 in. (35.2 x 70.8 cm)
Mount: 14 3/4 x 28 7/8 in. (37.5 x 73.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Robert S. Black, in memory of Barbara Bell Black, class of 1924
On View
Not on view
Period19th c
Classification(s)
Signed楊洲周延筆 [Yôshû Chikanobu hitsu] on right sheet
InscribedOn recto, printed within image, upper right: 改良貴婦人競 [Kairyō kifujin kurabe, A Contest of the Reformed Ladies]; lower right: 楊洲周延筆 [Yōshū Chikanobu hitsu, Drawn by Yōshū Chikanobu]; lower left: 明治 [Meiji], 年 [nen, year], 月 [getsu, month], 日[nichi, day]; [unidentified character]年四月二十一日 出板 日本バシ区 [? nen shigatsu nijūichinichi shuppan, Nihonbashi ku, Published on the twenty-first day of the fourth month of __ at Nihonbashi District] / 本銀町二丁目十二バン千 [Honshiroganechō nichōme jūnibanchi, Number 12 of 2nd Street, the Town of Honshirogane]; 印刷兼発行者 武川卯之吉 [Insatsu ken hakkōsha Takekawa Unokichi, Printer and publisher Takekawa Unokichi]; 彫工 銀 [Chōkō Gin, Carver Gin]
Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistorySecond Sight: Originality, Duplicity, and the Object, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 14 - April 10, 2005;

Madame Butterfly's World: Woodblock Prints of a Changing Japan, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY, June 21 - September 21, 2014
DescriptionPolychrome print in predominantly reds and blues of Japanese women in western style dress standing outdoors against a lush backdrop of trees and flowers. A man in a military uniform is at right and an open body of water is in the background.
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