Hunter Spying a Hawk

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Artist Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japanese, 1847–1915)Japanese, 1847–1915

PublisherPublished by Matsuki Heikichi(Japanese, 1836–1891)Japanese, 1836–1891

CultureJapanese

Titles

Hunter Spying a Hawk
Teppou uchi ryoushi

Datec. 1880

MediumWoodblock printed diptych; ink and color on kozo paper

DimensionsOverall: 14 5/16 × 19 3/8 in. (36.4 × 49.2 cm)
Sheet (.A): 14 3/16 × 9 5/8 in. (36 × 24.5 cm)
Block (.A): 13 9/16 × 9 5/8 in. (34.5 × 24.4 cm)
Sheet (.B): 14 7/16 × 9 3/4 in. (36.7 × 24.7 cm)
Block (.B): 13 11/16 × 9 9/16 in. (34.8 × 24.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Peter and Erika Aron and the Japanese Business Association

Object number2022.28.A,.B

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Asian Art

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Provenance[Scholten Japanese Art, New York, by March 2019]; purchased by MFAH.
Exhibition HistoryNA
Published References Henry D. Smith II, Kiyo-Chika: Artist of Meiji Japan, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1988, p. 31, no. 18 Exhibition of Kobayashi Kiyochika, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 1998, p. 63, no. 79 Anne Rose Kitagawa and Akiko Walley, eds. Expanding Fronteirs: The Jack and Susy Wadsworth Collection of Postwar Japanese Prints, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 2015, p. 24, fig. 7 (from the Michels Collection) Hideki Kikkawa, Kobayashi Kiyochika: Studies in Light and Shadow of the Westernization of Japan, Seigensha Art Publishing, 2015, p. 93, no. 122 Kobayashi Kiyochika: A Retrospective, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, 2016, p. 100, no. 150 Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Signatures of artist and carver printed in grey at recto bottom left of the left print: "小林清親 " (Kobayashi Kiyochika) and "彫刻英吉" (Chōkoku Eikichi)

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