Evening in Tokyo: Figures in Silhouette behind a Shoji screen / Takahashi Hiroaki
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- Accession Number
- 1991/2.110
- Title
- Evening in Tokyo: Figures in Silhouette behind a Shoji screen
- Artist
- Takahashi Hiroaki
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Artist Life Dates
- 1871-1944
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1900-1921
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Japan (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Japan (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Millard Pryor in Memory of Mary S. Pryor
- Dimensions
- 38 cm x 16.3 cm (14 15/16 in. x 6 7/16 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- color print
- Physical Description
- Near dusk, a woman in a kimono walks outside a Japanese style building with a shoji screen for a wall. The silhouettes of merry-makers inside can be seen, revealing the figure of a man and also a woman, probably a geisha, holding an instrument that appears to be a shamisen.
- Subject Matter
- Takahashi Hiroaki worked with the prolific twentieth century publisher of woodblock prints Watanabe Shozaburo (1885-1962). Takahashi was trained in Nihonga, or Japanese painting, and dedicated much of his time to paintings for exhibitions and illustrations for scientific publications. His nostalgic “Old Japan” imagery was highly sought after by collectors in Europe and North America. Takahashi’s work attempts to capture the essence of cultural events and everyday life.
- Primary Keywords
- building
- instruments, musical
- kimono
- night
- screen (furniture)
- tokyo (metropolis)
- ukiyo-e
- Secondary Keywords
- additive and joining processes and techniques
- asia (continent)
- asian
- assembling
- associated concepts
- costume
- costume by form
- descriptors
- earth sciences concepts
- east asian
- furnishings
- furnishings by form or function
- furniture
- furniture by form or function
- geographic and political locations
- japan (nation)
- japanese
- japanese printmaking styles
- japanese styles
- kanto (region)
- main garments
- objects we use
- people and culture
- physical sciences concepts
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- scientific concepts
- sound devices
- sound devices by function
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 697 x 1397
- File Size
- 88 KB
- Record
- 1991/2.110
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1991-sl-2.110/1991_2.110.jpg
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"Evening in Tokyo: Figures in Silhouette behind a Shoji screen; Takahashi Hiroaki." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1991-sl-2.110/1991_2.110.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.