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Attack by American Indians: Act II, Scene 1, from the play “Strange Tale of the Castaway: A Western Kabuki” (Hyōryū kidan seiyō kabuki 漂流奇談西洋劇),
1879, September 10
Adachi Ginkō 安達吟光, active 1874–1897
Japanese
Meiji era, 1868–1912
2006-33
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Title
Attack by American Indians: Act II, Scene 1, from the play “Strange Tale of the Castaway: A Western Kabuki” (Hyōryū kidan seiyō kabuki 漂流奇談西洋劇)
Dates
1879, September 10
Maker
Medium
Woodblock print (ōban tate-e format); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
block: 35.2 x 23 cm
sheet: 36.1 x 24.7 cm
mat: 49 x 36.3 cm. (19 5/16 x 14 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, The Anne van Biema Collection Fund
Object Number
2006-33
Place Made
Japan
Culture
Period
Techniques
– Private collection (upstate NY).
–2006 Sebastian Izzard LLC, Asian Art (New York, NY), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2006.
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2006," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 66 (2007): p. 41-74., p. 44
- Nicole Fabricand-Person, "From the Wild West to the Far East: The Imagining of America in a Nineteenth-Century Japanese Woodblock Print," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 68 (2009): 16–37., p. 20, fig. 6
