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Title

  • Daietsu.

Summary

  • Daietsu is a story with a happy ending, in which an affectionate and dutiful son, Daietsu-no-suke, becomes a rich man blessed with many descendants by the grace of Kiyomizu Kannon (the goddess of mercy) and Daikokuten and Ebisu (the gods of wealth). The story dates from the 16th century, but this pair of picture scrolls appears to have been painted in the 18th century by Sumiyoshi Hiromori (1705--77), an artist of the Sumiyoshi school. The scrolls are gorgeously colored and richly adorned with gold leaf on a traditional high-quality eggshell-colored glossy paper. The paper was first decorated with gold paint (a mixture of gold powder and liquid glue made into a painting material) in a design of flowers before the application of the script.

Names

  • Sumiyoshi, Hiromori, 1705--1777 Artist.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1700 to 1777]

Headings

  • -  Japan
  • -  1500 to 1599

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 2 scrolls, 32.6 centimeters in length, color illustrations.
  • -  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

  • 2021667428

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Sumiyoshi, Hiromori, 1705. Daietsu. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1777, 1700] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667428/.

APA citation style:

Sumiyoshi, H. (1700) Daietsu. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1777] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667428/.

MLA citation style:

Sumiyoshi, Hiromori, 1705. Daietsu. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1777, 1700] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667428/>.