1989.44.113

Collection type

Object

Description

Print of children playing in the street with spinning tops.

Long description

To the left is a house hung with notices. A boy is sitting in front of it reading a book, and another boy is about to grab his shoe. [El.B 04/03/2008]

Geographical reference

Japan

Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan

Tokyo

Cultural groups

Japanese

Person

Maker Shōun Yamamoto

Field collector Alfred Ernest Dickinson

Field collector Cicely Frances Dickinson

Field collector Enid May Dickinson

PRM source Bent Einer Juel-Jensen

PRM source Cicely Mary Juel-Jensen

Date / Period

Date made: 1907

Date collected

1909

Acquisition information

Donated: 10/1989

Materials and processes

Material Paper Plant, Process Printed

Dimensions

Length 243 mm, Width 360 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1989.44.113

Research and responses

It has been identified by Fusa McLynn from the printed writing to the left of the image that the woodblock print was printed on 25 March 1907 (Meiji 40) and published a few days later on 1 April 1907; it was sold by Daikokuya, a shop in Tokyo whose owner is described on the print as being Heikichi MATSUKI. The print is from a larger series titled 'Kodomo Asobi' (literally, child play, i.e. trans. 'Children's Play'). The artist has been identified as Shōun YAMAMOTO (1870-1965), a Japanese print designer, painter and illustrator whose work spans the Meiji, Taishō and Shōwa periods. For further information on Shōun Yamamoto, see Masako Gotō, Yamamoto Shōun: A View of Nostalgic Japan and the Beauties of those Days (2005); and Masako Gotō, 'Yamamoto Shōun, His Life and Works', Daruma Magazine, 62 (Spring 2009), pp.36-51. [PG 24/10/2018]

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