Caption

Album of photographs and postcards; Japanese art, Meiji period late 19th century. Subject matter: landscapes, women Japanese women, sakura, boats, torii, mountains, birds, rivers, pine trees, lotuses. Cover: wood covered with brown and black lacquer, painted with gold maki-e, bone faces, superimposed; decoration: landscape with two figures in a boat. Pages decorated with floral and landscape motifs. Album; height 17.1 cm, width 23.2 cm., A rectangular textile with a light beige background framed by a narrow brown border contains a rectangular cutout showing a colorful scene with several people seated on a green floor. The scene includes a person in a blue robe seated on a raised platform, several figures in patterned robes in shades of yellow, red, orange, green, blue, and brown kneeling or sitting, and a person wearing a patterned green and blue garment seated to the right. The cutout is outlined with a pink border. Decorative bamboo-like gray brush strokes appear above and below the cutout on the beige textile. A bird with tan, white, and dark brown feathers is depicted flying near the lower left of the cutout. The outer edges of the textile show a patterned beige and brown trim and a dark brown strip along the bottom.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A29_155

License type

Rights managed

Available size

78.9Mb (9.3Mb) / 20.0in x 15.3in / 6000 x 4594 (300dpi)

Keywords

Album photographs postcards Japanese art Meiji period late 19th century Subject matter landscapes women Japanese women sakura boats torii mountains birds rivers pine trees lotuses Cover wood covered brown black lacquer painted gold maki-e bone faces superimposed decoration landscape two figures boat Pages decorated floral landscape motifs height 17.1 cm width 23.2 cm rectangular textile light beige background framed narrow brown border contains rectangular cutout showing colorful scene several people seated green floor scene includes person blue robe seated raised platform several figures patterned robes shades yellow red orange green blue brown kneeling sitting person wearing patterned green blue garment seated right outlined pink border Decorative bamboo- gray brush strokes beige textile bird tan white dark brown feathers depicted flying near lower left outer edges textile patterned beige brown trim dark brown strip bottom.