A Six Panel Composition Mounted in Two Triptychs; Triptych 1, panels 1-3: Related Sleeves in Bay-dye (Sono yukari sode ga urazome) [Triptych 2, panels 4-6 (2006.65.7.2): Mutually Creating Genji (Ai moyō Genji jitate)]

Utagawa Kunisada, Japanese, 1786 - 1865

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1855, eigth month

Six color woodblock prints (triptych 1 of 2)

Sheet: 14 3/4 × 10 1/16 in. (37.4 × 25.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Anne W. Thomas, in honor of Howard Thomas

2006.65.7.1abc

Publisher

Izumiya Ichibei

Geography

Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

print 1: Inscribed, in black ink, top left: [Japanese inscription]; inscribed, in black ink, bottom right: [Japanese inscription]; inscribed, in graphite, top left corner: 1; print 2: Inscribed, in black ink, bottom right: [Japanese inscription]; inscribed, in graphite, top left corner: 2; print 3: Inscribed, in black ink, bottom right: [Japanese inscription]; inscribed, in graphite, top left corner: 3

Course History

ARTH 65, Japanese Prints, Allen Hockley, Winter 2015

ARTH 62.3, Japanese Prints, Allen Hockley, Winter 2019

ARTH 62.30/ASCL 62.12, Japanese Prints, Allen Hockley, Spring 2022

Art History 62.30, Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 62.12, Japanese Prints, Allen Hockley, Spring 2023

Art History 62.30, Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 62.12, Japanese Prints, Allen Hockley, Summer 2023

Exhibition History

Dartmouth Looks at The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari), curated by Dennis Washburn and Allen Hockley in conjunction with the colloquium "What Is a Classic? Translation, Reception, and the Making of Canons," Ivan Albright Gallery, Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 21-September 28, 2014.

Provenance

Howard Thomas (1899-1971); to his wife, Anne Wall Thomas, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1971; given to present collection, 2006.

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