Title
Variety of darkness: evening darkness
1854
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Mitate variety of darkness: evening darkness
- Alternative title
- Mitate yami tukushi: yoi yami: dote no Naroku
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Ansei era 1854 - 1860 → Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Date
- 1854
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 24.6 cm
- Signature & date
Signed l.r.[ in cartouche], in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "Toyokuni-ga [picture by Toyokuni]".
Not dated.- Credit
- Purchased 1995
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 210.1995
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Utagawa Kunisada/Toyokuni III
Works in the collection
- Share
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
The Floating World: Japan's World of transient pleasures, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 May 1994–17 Jul 1994
Beauty and Desire in Edo period Japan, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 06 Jun 1998–09 Aug 1998
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Gary Hickey, Beauty & desire in Edo period Japan, 'Pleasure Town', pg. 25-36, Parkes, 1998, 31, 32 (colour illus.), 71. fig.no. 26
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'The Floating World', Sydney, 2003, 254 (colour illus.).
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