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[Japanese musician, seated, playing shakuhachi flute] / Utagawa Kuniyoshi [artwork]

[Japanese musician, seated, playing shakuhachi flute] [artwork]

Title: [Japanese musician, seated, playing shakuhachi flute] [artwork]
Artist: Kuniyoshi, Utagawa, 1797-1861
Genre: artwork
Date Created: ca. 1845
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: 07-07-2010

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