File:Kunichika-Kogiku-in-Saruwaka-Cho.jpeg

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English: Kogiku in Saruwaka-Cho

SUMMARY: Ukiyo-e print showing a beautiful woman, Kogiku, looking at photographic portraits (cartes de visite), possibly of her admirers. Photography was so new in Japan when this print was created that the artist is also representing his country's growing contact with the western world and modern technology. The sake and grilled fish in the rectangle above the woman's head show one restaurant's culinary specialties. The long, vertical cartouche on the right calls the woman Kogiku, which translates as "small chrysanthemum," and gives the address in Saruwaka-Cho (now Asakusa), an entertainment district in Japan's capital city. The stamp on the carte de visite represents the noted Tokyo portrait photographer Uchida Kuichi (1844–1875), who had a studio in Asakusa.

MEDIUM: 1 print : woodcut, color ; 37 × 25 cm.

Format: Vertical Oban.
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Source Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-18843 (digital file from original print), uncompressed archival TIFF version (71 MB),color level (pick white and black point), cropped, and converted to JPEG (quality level 88) with the GIMP 2.4.5.
Author
Toyohara Kunichika  (1835–1900)  wikidata:Q2738241
 
Toyohara Kunichika
Alternative names
豊原国周 = Kunichika Toyohara = Toyohara Kunichika = Kunichika
Description Japanese ukiyo-e artist
Date of birth/death 30 June 1835 Edit this at Wikidata 1 July 1900 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Edo Tokyo City
Work period 1854–1900
Work location
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creator QS:P170,Q2738241
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This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID ppmsca.18843.
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current13:26, 6 February 2009Thumbnail for version as of 13:26, 6 February 20093,805 × 5,620 (7.08 MB)Calliopejen1the edited version previously uploaded is not an accurate reflection of what the original would have looked like (blown whites, etc) - these were printed on cream-colored paper. this one is cropped but without other adjustments.
07:42, 18 October 2008Thumbnail for version as of 07:42, 18 October 20083,864 × 5,656 (4.9 MB)Eubulides{{Information |Description= {{en|''Kogiku in Saruwaka-Cho'' SUMMARY: Ukiyo-e print showing a beautiful woman, Kogiku, looking at photographic portraits (cartes de visite), possibly of her admirers. Photography was so new in Japan when this print was cre
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