'The Floating Boat', Chapter 51-Faithful Depictions

Category

Library Item

Item no

348

Title

'The Floating Boat' ('Ukifune'), Chapter 51 from the series 'Faithful Depictions of the Figure of the Shining Prince' ('Sono sugata hikaru yukari no utsushi-e')

Description

This print depicts a scene inspired by Murasaki Shikibu's 'Tale of Genji' that takes place within the interior of a lavishly decorated home. In the centre of the room the seated Prince Mitsuuji (Prince Genji) speaks to a kneeling young man, whilst two women watch from behind a screen door.

Artist / maker

Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

Date

1852

Size

23.8 x 35 cm.

Type

Wood cut

Location

Art and Design Library

The following information appears on the print:

Signed: Toyokuni ga
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Censor's seals: Murata and Kinugasa (1851 - 1853)
Date seal: rat year, 12th month

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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