Take-jo - Stories of Wise Women - Capital Collections

Category

Library Item

Item no

319

Title

Take-jo from the series 'Stories of Wise Women and Faithful Wives' (Kenjo Reppuden)

Description

Take-jo, the saintly servant girl, is seen sprinkling grains for the birds from a box. The hanging pan behind her head forms a halo. [B. Robinson]

Artist / maker

Kuniyoshi

Date

1842

Size

35.5 x 24.5 cm.

Type

Wood cut

Location

Art and Design Library

The following information appears on the print:

Signature: Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga
Censor's Seal: Yoshimura (1842 - 1846)

From a series of 31 prints titled 'Stories of Wise Women and Faithful Wives' ('Kenjo Reppuden')

This is one of a set of 50 prints donated to Edinburgh City Libraries by Marie Ferguson Dyer in honour of her father Henry Dyer. Dyer was a Scottish engineer who became the first Principal of the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo in 1872.

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