Tea Kettle, section of a sheet from the series "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces" (Kohon meihitsu ishizuri kagami)
- Date:
- n.d.
- Medium:
- Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
A section of a harimaze sheet from the "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces," this print isolates a tea kettle rendered in the ishizuri-e technique that simulates rubbed stone impressions. The mundane domestic object takes on an austere dignity in monochrome, its form simplified to bold outlines. Such still-life vignettes were interspersed with landscape subjects across the harimaze sheet.
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Tea Kettle, section of a sheet from the series "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces" (Kohon meihitsu ishizuri kagami) was created by Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重) in n.d..
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