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Book/Printed Material Album of Appreciation of the Fragrance of Spring.

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Title

  • Album of Appreciation of the Fragrance of Spring.

Summary

  • Takuhanga is a printing technique in which a cloth-covered cotton ball containing black ink is patted on wet paper placed on an intaglio-engraved woodblock. The technique derives from takuhon, the art of rubbing found in Chinese copybooks printed from the works of old masters of calligraphy. This late-18th-century takuhanga album includes poems in the Chinese style celebrating the spring scenery of Kyoto written by learned men from the city who were students of Chinese literature, including Iwagaki Ryūkei (1741-1808). The drawings are by prominent Kyoto artists from the time, such as Itō Jakuchū (1716-1800), Ikeno Taiga (1723-76), and Maruyama Ōkyo (1733-95). The pitch-black glaze of the inked prints made using this technique imparts a different kind of beauty from that of nishiki-e (Japanese multicolored woodblock prints).

Names

  • Emi, Nagatoshi Creator.
  • Ike (Ikeno), Taiga, 1723-1776 Artist.
  • Itō, Jakuchū, 1716-1800 Artist.
  • Iwagaki, Ryūkei, 1741-1808 Author.
  • Maruyama, Ōkyo, 1733-1795 Artist.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1777.

Headings

  • -  Japan--Kyoto
  • -  1777
  • -  Block printing
  • -  Chinese poetry
  • -  Poetry

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 book ; 28.3 x 17 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: National Diet Library.
  • -  Content in Japanese.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666415

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Emi, Nagatoshi Creator, Taiga Ike, Jakuchū Itō, Ryūkei Iwagaki, and Ōkyo Maruyama. Album of Appreciation of the Fragrance of Spring. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1777] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666415/.

APA citation style:

Emi, N. C., Ike, T., Itō, J., Iwagaki, R. & Maruyama, Ō. (1777) Album of Appreciation of the Fragrance of Spring. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666415/.

MLA citation style:

Emi, Nagatoshi Creator, et al. Album of Appreciation of the Fragrance of Spring. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1777] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666415/>.