Fireworks at Ike-no-hata (Ike-no-hata hanabi 池の端花火)
Fireworks at Ike-no-hata (Ike-no-hata hanabi 池の端花火)

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Fireworks at Ike-no-hata (Ike-no-hata hanabi 池の端花火),

1881 [Meiji 14]

Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林清親, 1847–1915
Published by Fukuda Kumajirō 福田熊次郎, ca. 1800–1898
Japanese
Meiji era, 1868–1912
2010-234

Information

Title
Fireworks at Ike-no-hata (Ike-no-hata hanabi 池の端花火)
Dates

1881 [Meiji 14]

Maker
Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林清親
Published by Fukuda Kumajirō 福田熊次郎
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
block: 20.2 x 31.3 cm. (7 15/16 x 12 5/16 in.) sheet: 36.7 x 25.4 cm. (14 7/16 x 10 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, the Anne van Biema Collection Fund
Object Number
2010-234
Place Made

Asia, Japan

Signatures
signed: Gako Kobayashi Kiyochika 画工小林清親 (in left margin)
Culture
Japanese
Period
Meiji
Type
japanese printmaking styles, woodblock prints, prints
Materials
color, ink, paper
Techniques
woodcut (process)
Subject
night, calligraphy (writing), darkness, reflections, shadows, seas, people, fireworks (visual works), lanterns (lighting devices), figures (representations)

–2010 Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art (New York, NY), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2010.

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