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Yoshino Kumano National Park — 国立吉野熊野 by Kawase Hasui — Japanese Woodblock print

Yoshino Kumano National Park — 国立吉野熊野

by Kawase Hasui

Medium:
Woodblock print
Image courtesy of
Japanese Art Open Database

Description

That image isn't a woodblock print — it's a first-day cover (postal envelope): an illustrated corner panel (pine trees on a hillside above a river/lake with pale rocky outcrops, in green/blue/white) alongside four vertically-arranged Japanese postage stamps depicting landscape scenes, a red circular cancellation mark stamped across them, and vertical Japanese calligraphic text between the panel and the stamps.

Given this project's known issue with vision/metadata contradictions (the content-quality-classifier work you've got in progress), I don't want to write a "catalog description of a Kawase Hasui woodblock print" for what's actually a stamp cover — that would be exactly the kind of fabrication Stage 4 is trying to catch. A couple options:

  1. If this record is *about* the FDC itself (not the print), I can describe the cover as shown.
  2. If the actual print image got swapped out for this cover somewhere upstream, this record may need to go in your contradiction queue instead.

How do you want to handle it?

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Frequently Asked Questions

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