Camel / Utagawa Kuniyasu
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1969/2.91
- Title
- Camel
- Artist
- Utagawa Kuniyasu
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Artist Life Dates
- 1794-1832
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1824?
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Japan (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Japan (nation)
- Style/Group/Movement
- ukiyo e
- Inscription
- Signed: Kuniyasu ga
- Dimensions
- 38 cm x 26 cm (14 15/16 in. x 10 1/4 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- color print
- Secondary Object Classification
- ukiyo-e
- Physical Description
- This double-leaf print depicts two camels and accompanying foreign trainers or performers in fringed clothing, with ballooning pants and dark boots. Some of the performers play instruments, while others tend to the camels. Above both pages is writing by calligrapher Santô Kyôden describing the camels and their tour of Japan around 1821.
- Subject Matter
- This double-leaf print depicts two camels and accompanying foreign trainers or performers in fringed clothing, with ballooning pants and dark boots. They may be from Portugal, Central Asia, or China, and have come with the pair of Arabia camels on a tour of Japan beginning in 1821, stopping in Osaka, Kyoto, and Edo, where Utagawa resided.
- Some of the performers play instruments, while others tend to the camels. Above both pages is writing by calligrapher Santô Kyôden describing the camels and their trip. Exotic animal and foreigner prints such as these are typical of Nagasaki-e, depictions of trade and goods from foreign lands that came through the port of Deshima in Nagasaki Bay during the National Seclusion Policy (1639-1854).
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- asian
- east asian
- japanese
- japanese printmaking styles
- japanese styles
- mammals
- people and culture
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 887 x 1297
- File Size
- 169 KB
- Record
- 1969/2.91
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1969-sl-2.91/1969_2.91.jpg
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"Camel; Utagawa Kuniyasu." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1969-sl-2.91/1969_2.91.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 27, 2024.
