A New Selection of Big Fans (Shinsen O-Uchiwa)

Arts of Asia

Edo period (1615–1868), n.d.

Okumura Masanobu 奥村政信
Japanese, 1686-1764

This is a collection of ghost stories presented in eight volumes that are bound as one. The page seen here shows a female demon attacking a samurai, while a traveling priest hides behind a pine tree.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Artist: Okumura Masanobu
Title: A New Selection of Big Fans (Shinsen O-Uchiwa)
Place: Japan (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1615-1868
Medium: Woodblock printed book, sumizuri-e
Dimensions: 22 × 16 cm (8 11/16 × 6 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 2022.1404
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Mrs. Louise Norton Brown, Japan, c. 1913 to at least 1915 [according to, “Preface” and “Chapter XII”, in Louise Norton Brown, Block Printing and Book-Illustration in Japan From the Earliest Period to the Twentieth Century; this and the following according to Frederick Gookin, “Preface,” in Kenji Toda, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese and Chinese Illustrated Books in the Ryerson Library at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1931), iv, and Accession Book: 1-62, 112, 1884?-1955, Ryerson Art Library, Art Institute of Chicago]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Lake Geneva, WI, 1926; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1926-1932.

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