Seven Wise Women (from all eras) of Japan
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- Artist
- Toyohara Kunichika
- Date
- 1877
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Catalogue Number
- KoT.04.06 a-c
- Description
- This tryptic features 7 wise women all described by a text panel. These panels are made from 2 portions: a white block filled with text, and a red rectangular block to the right and overlapping the white. The print is framed by a border which is black and has light blue and pink decorative bands in…
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- Artist
- Toyohara Kunichika
- Title
- Seven Wise Women (from all eras) of Japan
- Date
- 1877
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Dimensions
- 36.5 x 74.0 cm
- Description
- This tryptic features 7 wise women all described by a text panel. These panels are made from 2 portions: a white block filled with text, and a red rectangular block to the right and overlapping the white. The print is framed by a border which is black and has light blue and pink decorative bands in it. The seven women are in a room that is mostly green in colour. All the windows are closed, and blinds shut. From left to right: a woman stands reading; a woman sits at a table with scrolls on it (both women facing right); Three women in the center panel engaged in - maybe - a conversation: 2 are standing and one sitting in the middle front of them; two women in the third panel face right, the first sitting and reading, the second standing. The women are all wearing red fabric tied to the waist and flowing to their feet.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- KoT.04.06 a-c
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Yoshimachi Menten, Civilization-36 Banquets
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactkot.04.04
- Artist
- Toyohara Kunichika
- Date
- 1878
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Catalogue Number
- KoT.04.04
- Description
- Print is divided in half diagonally by a brown staircase on the left side that one Geisha is climbing. Another Geigha is standing on the floor, holding a sash of red fabric in her mouth. She is wearing a checkered Kimono. A servant is bending to her left picking out a piece of green fabric. A g…
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- Artist
- Toyohara Kunichika
- Title
- Yoshimachi Menten, Civilization-36 Banquets
- Date
- 1878
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Dimensions
- 37.5 x 25.0 cm
- Description
- Print is divided in half diagonally by a brown staircase on the left side that one Geisha is climbing. Another Geigha is standing on the floor, holding a sash of red fabric in her mouth. She is wearing a checkered Kimono. A servant is bending to her left picking out a piece of green fabric. A garden with a tree is in the background. The floor is green, and panelled wood.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- KoT.04.04
Images
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