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Title

Tôsei Fûzoku Gojûban Uta-awase: Ge

March 1907

Artist

Asai Chū

Japan

1856 – 1907

No image
  • Details

    Alternative title
    Fifty modern genre scenes compared in verse: Vol. 2
    Place where the work was made
    Japan
    Period
    Meiji period 1868 - 1912 → Japan
    Date
    March 1907
    Media categories
    Print , Book
    Materials used
    bound book: 30 leaves, 25 prints, colour woodcut
    Dimensions
    24.9 x 16.8 cm leaf; 24.9 x 18.1 x 1.4 cm closed book; 24.9 x 34.1 cm open book :

    a - Untitled (a female labourer and a laboruer), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf b (page 27)

    b - Untitled (a wooden clogs maker and a worker), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf c (page 28)

    c - Untitled (an extra-vendor and a milkman), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf d (page 29)

    d - Untitled (a sailor and a nurse), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf e (page 30)

    e - Untitled (a young lady and a photographer), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf f (page 31)

    f - Untitled (a gardener and a cooper), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf g (page 32)

    g - Untitled (a fortune-teller and a player of the Japanese board game), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf h (page 33)

    h - Untitled (a painter and a dyer), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf i (page 34)

    i - Untitled (a ragman and a worker), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf j (page 35)

    j - Untitled (a worker and a porter), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf k (page 36)

    k - Untitled (a boatman and a cartman), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf l (page 37)

    l - Untitled (a draper and a tailor), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf m (page 38)

    m - Untitled (a iceman and a seller of baked sweet potates), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf n (page 39)

    n - Untitled (a female teacher and a reporter), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf o (page 40)

    o - Untitled (a watering man and a lighter of gaslights), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf p (page 41)

    p - Untitled (a lawyer and a comic storyteller), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf q (page 42)

    q - Untitled (a postman and a caretaker), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf r (page 43)

    r - Untitled (a student and a female student), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf s (page 44)

    s - Untitled (a masserger and a farrier), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf t (page 45)

    t - Untitled (a seller of Japanese hotchpotch and a buckwheat-noodle vendor), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf u (page 46)

    u - Untitled (a hunter and a man), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf v (page 47)

    v - Untitled (a medicine peddler and a balloon seller), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf w (page 48)

    w - Untitled (a cleaner and a dog catcher), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf x (page 49)

    x - Untitled (a mendicant and a nun), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf y (page 50)

    y - Untitled (a man and a drainer), 21 x 15.1 cm, image; leaf z (page 51)

    Signature & date

    Not signed. Not dated.

    Credit
    Purchased 1989
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    345.1989.2.a-dd
    Artist information
    Asai Chū

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  • Places

    Where the work was made

    Japan

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