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「東京開化名勝ノ内」 「名月やこゝ住吉のつくた島 其角」「佃島夜の景」「洲さきの汐干」 by Kawanabe Kyosai — Japanese Woodblock print

「東京開化名勝ノ内」 「名月やこゝ住吉のつくた島 其角」「佃島夜の景」「洲さきの汐干」

by Kawanabe Kyosai

Medium:
Woodblock print
Image courtesy of
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Description

The print is arranged in two horizontal registers. The upper section shows a harbor view with moored sailboats and low shoreline buildings, set beside a close-up bust portrait of a figure wearing a red-orange hood or headwrap over a grayish-green robe; a vertical cartouche of text sits in the upper right. The lower section shows a standing young woman in a purple-and-white checked kimono, dark hair swept up, positioned near reeds and water with small boats and a pale sky behind her. The palette is dominated by indigo, muted green, and tan, with vermillion accents in the headwrap and text panels; the sheet shows scattered brown staining and foxing throughout. Inscriptions read 「東京開化名勝ノ内」, 「名月やこゝ住吉のつくた島 其角」, 「佃島夜の景」, and 「洲さきの汐干」, attributed to Kawanabe Kyōsai.

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「東京開化名勝ノ内」 「名月やこゝ住吉のつくた島 其角」「佃島夜の景」「洲さきの汐干」 was created by Kawanabe Kyosai (河鍋暁斎).