- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Holy picture from Isé, colour print of a number of figures sitting and dancing, with a border of small illustrations of objects. [SM 13/10/2008]
- Long description
- Holy picture from Isé, colour print of a number of figures sitting and dancing, with a border of small illustrations of objects. The objects illustrated in the border are things like, swords, looms, musical instruments, shoes etc. The picture is a print that has been coloured using ?watercolour paint. [SM 13/10/2008]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1892
- Date collected
- Before 1892
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1892
- Materials and processes
- Material Paper Plant, Material Ink, Material Pigment, Material Watercolour Paint, Process Printed, Process Stamped, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Width: max 573 mm, Length: max 385 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1892.29.26
- Research and responses
This object was examined by Professor Itaru Chijiwa during his research visit in November 2008. He stated that the kanji at the bottom right of the print gives the date of printing - 14th December 1889 - and that the title of the picture is Daidai-o-kagura-no-zu [SM 13/11/2008]
The inscription on this object was transcribed and translated by Fusa McLynn who volunteered at the Museum in 2009 as: “Daidai kagura” - the title of the print. [SM 10/02/2009]
- Associated publications
- This object is referred to in an article by Basil Hall Chamberlain, Notes on Some Minor Japanese Religious Practices, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 22 (1893), pp. 355-370, p.369. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2842134 [El.B 06/06/2012]
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