Silk manufacture

Category

Library Item

Item no

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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