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Silk manufacture
Yoshikazu, 1849, Wood cut
Silk manufacture
Silk manufacture
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349
Title
Silk manufacture (title untranslated).
Description
Two ladies, feeding silkworms with leaves. This is one of many prints designed by the artist based on the theme of sericulture.
Artist / maker
Yoshikazu
Date
1849
Size
37.5 x 25 cm.
Type
Wood cut
Location
Art and Design Library
The following information appears on the print:
Signed: Ichiyusai Yoshikazu ga
Artist: Ichikawa Yoshikazu
Censor's seals: Hama and Magome (1849 - 1853)
Date seal: rat year, 12th month
Yoshikazu produced a number of print designs depicting silk production.
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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Dai Nippon (Great Japan)
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