
Crane Pulling Cart, from roof tile
- Date:
- 1930s
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
A thick black-bordered rectangle encloses a stylized crane, its long neck and open beak curved upward, harnessed to a large spoked cart wheel, rendered in bold black lines with scattered diamond and dash-shaped marks filling the background. The design is printed in black on cream paper with a small red seal at lower left and pencil inscriptions below (Japanese characters, the date, and "Un-ichi" in roman script). Hiratsuka Un'ichi, woodblock print, 1930.
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Crane Pulling Cart, from roof tile was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1930s.
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