Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title: Inaka Genji- Genji in the countryside
Date: 1885
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Friday, 26 September 2008 Colour print from woodblocks, with blind embossing (karazuri), textile printing (nunomezuri) and borderless shading (atenashi bokashi); printed with extra bokashi clouds around moon. Oban format vertical diptych. Block-cutter: Negishi Chokuzan. Publisher: Matsui Eikichi. 20/08/1885 Keyes 474 The title comes from Ryutei Tanehiko's serial novel Nise murasaki inaka genji (False Murasaki and a Rural Genji) of 1829-42, which reset the 11th-century classic Tale of Genji in the 15th century. This scene comes from chapter 4. http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/yoshitoshi/works/P.18-2003_SE.html
