Title(s)

The Album The Silver World

Object type

• book

Object number

RP-P-1960-13

Catalogue reference

• Forrer 39
• Jap Cat II 88

Inscriptions / marks

• date

Description

Boek met winterscenes en 78 kyôka (komische gedichten) over sneeuw; blauwe kaft waarop landschap met boom; linksboven titelstrook; acht bladen; twee pagina's, voorwoord; tien pagina's, sneeuwscenes; zeven pagina's kyôka; laatste pagina kyoka en colofon; bewaard in een donkerrode chitsu (uitklapbaar doosje), met op rug: Utamaro Ijehon Ginsekai 1790.

Artist

• print maker: Kitagawa Utamaro (mentioned on object)
• Yadoya Meshimori (mentioned on object)
• Ishikawa Masamochi (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Tsutaya Juzaburo (Koshodo) (mentioned on object)

Place

Edo

Dating

1790

Physical features

nishikie, with metallic pigments, blindprinting and embossing, folding album

Material

• paper
• gold powder

Technique

color woodcut / blind-stamped

Measurements

height 257 mm × width 190 mm

What

• winter landscape; landscape symbolizing winter (the four seasons of the year)

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1960

Copyright

Public domain

Parts

• Preface (RP-P-1960-13-1)
• A court scene set in the snow (RP-P-1960-13-2)
• Pulling a boat along thee river (RP-P-1960-13-3)
• A party in a house with two women at left (RP-P-1960-13-4)
• The banks of Sumida river in snow (RP-P-1960-13-5)
• Chinese boys playing in the snow (RP-P-1960-13-6)
• Poetry (RP-P-1960-13-7)
• Poetry (RP-P-1960-13-8)
• Poetry (RP-P-1960-13-9)
• Kyoka gedichten en colofon (RP-P-1960-13-10)

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• Catalogue of pre-Meiji Japanese books and maps in public collections in the Netherlands, H. Kerlen, 186, cat.nr. 449
• The passionate art of Kitagawa Utamaro, cat.nr. 473
• The age of Utamaro : Japanese prints c., 1780-1800, Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, cat.nr. 88
• The age of Utamaro : Japanese prints c., 1780-1800, Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, 65-66, cat.nr. 88
• The history of Japanese printing and book illustration, David Chibbett
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• Block printing & book illustrations in Japan, Louise Norton Brown
• Japanese colour prints, Laurence Binyon, J.J. O'Brien Sexton, cat.nr. 184
• Outamaro : le peintre des maisons vertes, Edmond de Goncourt
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