Add to ORKGUkiyo-e print showing a beautiful woman, Kogiku, looking at photographic portraits (cartes de visite), possibly of her admirers. Photography was so new in Japan when this print was created that the artist is also representing his country's growing contact with the western world and modern technology. The sake and grilled fish in the rectangle above the woman's head show one restaurant's culinary specialties. The long, vertical cartouche on the right calls the woman Kogiku, which translates as "small chrysanthemum," and gives the address in Saruwaka-Cho (now Asakusa), an entertainment district in Japan's capital city. The stamp on the carte de visite represents the noted Tokyo portrait photographer Uchida Kuichi (1844-1875), who had a studio...
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Title from item.; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn5197059. The Japanese print ...
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Hand-tinted photograph from a lacquered album produced for the tourist trade in Japan. Albums conta...
A woman, full-length, with two attendants sitting or kneeling behind her.Title and other descriptive...
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Print shows women serving tea to men in a tearoom, drinking tea, reading, and writing; view of Edo t...
Print shows many people on the Nakanocho Boulevard at night near the gate to the Shin-Yoshiwara plea...
Print shows barges on the waterways near Edo, with Mount Fuji in the distance.Title and other descri...
Title from item.; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn5197059. The Japanese print ...
Image of incendiary Oshichi. Includes vignette image (koma-e) above her head showing a famous place ...
Print shows women exiting sedan chairs and entering a restaurant.Title and other descriptive informa...
Ukiyo-e is the image of a floating and fleeting world. This was the name given to Japanese printmaki...
Print shows a bird's-eye view of the Yamashita quarter of Ueno, with the tops of many parasols in th...
Japanese print shows exterior view in the Asakusa section of Tokyo showing the telegraph bureau and ...
Two women at an outdoor teahouse stall at Zōshigaya with Mount Fuji in the distance.Title and other ...
Japanese print showing street scene in Tokyo with wharf and sailboat in the foreground, parcels on t...
Print shows Tsukasa, a courtesan at Ōgiya, with a female attendant bringing her tea.Restricted acces...
Hand-tinted photograph from a lacquered album produced for the tourist trade in Japan. Albums conta...
A woman, full-length, with two attendants sitting or kneeling behind her.Title and other descriptive...
Print shows a bird's-eye view of a coastal village with ships in the harbor and a view of Mount Fuji...
Print shows women serving tea to men in a tearoom, drinking tea, reading, and writing; view of Edo t...
Print shows many people on the Nakanocho Boulevard at night near the gate to the Shin-Yoshiwara plea...
Print shows barges on the waterways near Edo, with Mount Fuji in the distance.Title and other descri...