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Genji by Collaborating Brushes: Snow in the Garden (Gappitsu Genjio: teichu no yuki)

Genji by Collaborating Brushes: Snow in the Garden (Gappitsu Genjio: teichu no yuki)

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Hiroshige II, Utagawa and Utagawa Kunisada

This series was a collaborative effort between Hiroshige II and Kunisada that followed the success of the 1853 series Elegant Prince Genji. In this print, Kunisada designed the large two figures in the left panel while Hiroshige II designed the landscape in the middle panel. Prominent figures frolic in the snow in the middle ground of the left panel. The details of the elaborate garden scene includes a pond, stone lantern, and a miniature Mt. Fuji—the latter was created during the Edo period so that the elderly could symbolically climb the sacred mountain.
Artist
Hiroshige II, Utagawa and Utagawa Kunisada
(Japanese, 1829-1869) (Japanese, 1786-1864)
Title
Genji by Collaborating Brushes: Snow in the Garden (Gappitsu Genjio: teichu no yuki)
Date
11/1859
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
360 x 737 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Accession No.
1980.2249a-c
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. 177, no. 164
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 200

  • 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

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