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View of Tenjin Festival at Tenman Shrine in Naniwa, from the series Perspective Pictures

View of Tenjin Festival at Tenman Shrine in Naniwa, from the series Perspective Pictures

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Utagawa Toyoharu

Tenman Tenjin Shrine is more than 1,000 years old and is dedicated to Tenman Tenjin, the Shinto patron god of learning and arts. The summer festival at the shrine in Osaka is one of Japan’s largest festivals and includes an elaborate boat procession with more than one hundred vessels sailing from the Tenmabashi Bridge that spans the Okawa River. As in depictions of the Ryogoku Bridge in Edo, the pleasure boats are festooned with paper lanterns and banners, and people crowd the bridge to take part in the popular spectacle.
Artist
Utagawa Toyoharu
(Japanese, 1735 - 1814)
Title
View of Tenjin Festival at Tenman Shrine in Naniwa, from the series Perspective Pictures
Date
1770-1780
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
250 x 385 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Accession No.
1980.3089
Classification
Prints
Geography
Japan

Related

By 1925, purchased in Japan by Frank Lloyd Wright; ca. 1926, acquired by The Bank of Wisconsin; 1928, sold to Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Mueller, Laura. "Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School." Leiden, The Netherlands: Hotei Publishing, 2007. p. 65, no. 12
  • Osumi, Takeshige, ed. "Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection Ukiyo-e Masterpieces Exhibition." Tokyo: Bun You Associates, 1999.

  • Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770-1900 : Chazen Museum of Art, 3/21/2008–6/15/2008
  • Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School: Chazen Museum of Art, 11/3/2007–1/6/2008
  • Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 10/13/1999–6/30/2000

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