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Untitled, from the Gifts of the Ebb Tide (The Shell Book)

Untitled, from the Gifts of the Ebb Tide (The Shell Book)

Kitagawa Utamaro

The Gifts of the Ebb Tide is an illustrated book of poems celebrating seashells. Collecting shells was a popular pastime in Japan. In these luxuriously produced prints, the use of embossment and crushed mother-of-pearl emulates textures and iridescence of real shells.
Artist
Kitagawa Utamaro
(Japanese, 1754 - 1806)
Title
Untitled, from the Gifts of the Ebb Tide (The Shell Book)
Date
1789
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
9 1/8 x 14 1/4 in. each image
Credit
Chazen General Endowment Fund and John H. Van Vleck Endowment Fund purchase
Accession No.
2012.40a
Classification
Prints
Geography
Japan

Related

December 2012, sold by Israel Goldman Japanese Prints (London, England) to the Chazen Museum of Art

  • Chazen Museum of Art. "Artscene." July- December 2013
  • Collia-Suzuki, Gina. "The Complete Woodblock Prints of Kitagawa Utamaro: a Descriptive Catalogue." Weston-super-Mare: Nezu Press, 2009. p. 13, fig. 5

  • Japanese Masterworks: Woodblock Prints from the Chazen Museum of Art Collection: Chazen Museum of Art, 5/6/2016–8/14/2016
  • Gifts of the Ebb Tide: The Sea in Japanese Prints: Chazen Museum of Art, 6/8/2013–9/1/2013

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