- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Print of boys playing with small dolls.
- Long description
- The dolls appear to be a sumo wrestlers. There are also plates of sweets. In the background a cat is breaking through the paper panel of the door, another cat is behind it. [El.B 04/03/2008]
- 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
- Width 360 mm, Length 243 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1989.44.116
- 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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