[Japanese musician, seated, playing shakuhachi flute] / Utagawa Kuniyoshi [artwork]
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- Title
- [Japanese musician, seated, playing shakuhachi flute] [artwork]
- Artist
- Kuniyoshi, Utagawa, 1797-1861
- Date Created
- ca. 1845
- Genre
- artwork
- Physical Description
- 14 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches (36.8 x 25.2 cm.)
- Artist nationality
- Japanese
- Artist role
- painter, designer of wood block prints, and illustrator
- Inscription
- Verso: (in pencil) u. l.: Spaeth - Munich / Aug. 1930 / Mks. 12. - = $3.00; l. l.: C575/551 [and] 004215.20 (upside down)
- Medium
- Color wood block print.
- Condition
- There are four pairs of small holes along the left edge, probably original to the print, which may have been secured in an album with silk cords. Upper and lower right corners crimped; lower right corner may have been trimmed slightly.
- Provenance
- Jacob Spaeth, Kunst- und Antiquitäten- Handlung, Munich, 26 Aug. 1930.
- Instrument
- Shakuhachi
- Century
- 19th century
- Subjects
- Musician - Single player
- Japanese print
- Miller category
- Japanese and Chinese
- Miller ID
- 0261/W
- Repository
- Music Division, Library of Congress
Last Updated: 03-05-2014