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Procession of Daimyo (Feudal Lords)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsep.15.01
- Date
- prior to 1880
- Medium
- silk
- Catalogue Number
- SeP.15.01
- Description
- A three-dimensional silk scene of various insects in procession depicting a feudal lord going up to the capital city. The insects and all elements of the picture are hand made of silk on a silk background. Extremely fine work, exceptional detail. Leading the procession are 3 grasshoppers (heralds) …
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- Title
- Procession of Daimyo (Feudal Lords)
- Date
- prior to 1880
- Medium
- silk
- Dimensions
- 40.0 x 84.0 cm
- Description
- A three-dimensional silk scene of various insects in procession depicting a feudal lord going up to the capital city. The insects and all elements of the picture are hand made of silk on a silk background. Extremely fine work, exceptional detail. Leading the procession are 3 grasshoppers (heralds) followed by: 2 wasps carrying blue flowers, 2 crickets carrying morning glory flowers, 2 grasshoppers (big and strong) carrying biggest standards, 2 mantis carrying chest, 4 bearers (grasshoppers, 2 carrying, 2 backups) carrying a golden beetle (feudal lord) in a fine insect cage, 8 dancers (wasps), one lagging behind, 1 large grasshopper bearing beetle (parade marshall), 11 wasps and grasshoppers carrying food staples. i.e. honeycone, rice, wheat, beans, persimmon hill left foreground and right background with light brush strokes depicting grasses. Gold powder used as scenery highlights. Ref. pp 14-15, Vol.I,E.S. Morse Japan Day by Day, Houghton Mifflin Co., Riverside Press Cambridge, Boston and New York, 1917. Same artist, Seppo, made fans 103.08.0261 in Whyte House - WH-U2 sw.
- Subject
- mythological
- insect
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- SeP.15.01
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Untitled [Insects]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactkoi.04.01
- Artist
- Tsukioka Koogyo
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Catalogue Number
- KoI.04.01
- Description
- A black beetle, a greenish snail and a green insect on two large leaves, one of which is orange, the other grey-green, another grasshopper is on the grass under the leaves. Two more leaves with dark blue berries are in the bottom left of picture. The background is colourless with a light green fore…
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- Artist
- Tsukioka Koogyo
- Title
- Untitled [Insects]
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Dimensions
- 24.0 x 24.9 cm
- Description
- A black beetle, a greenish snail and a green insect on two large leaves, one of which is orange, the other grey-green, another grasshopper is on the grass under the leaves. Two more leaves with dark blue berries are in the bottom left of picture. The background is colourless with a light green foreground and some long green grass.
- Subject
- insect
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- KoI.04.01
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Untitled [Six Fireflies]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactkoi.04.03
- Artist
- Tsukioka Koogyo
- Date
- c. 1910
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Catalogue Number
- KoI.04.03
- Description
- Night scene, six fireflies over all picture, four on reeds, two in flight. A few green leaves show up in left bottom of picture, the fireflies have gold bums.
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- Artist
- Tsukioka Koogyo
- Title
- Untitled [Six Fireflies]
- Date
- c. 1910
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Dimensions
- 24.0 x 25.2 cm
- Description
- Night scene, six fireflies over all picture, four on reeds, two in flight. A few green leaves show up in left bottom of picture, the fireflies have gold bums.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- KoI.04.03
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