Illustration of the Silk Reeling Machine at the Japanese National Industrial Exposition (Dai Nihon naikoku kangyô hakurankai seishi kikai no zu)

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Illustration of the Silk Reeling Machine at the Japanese National Industrial Exposition (Dai Nihon naikoku kangyô hakurankai seishi kikai no zu)

「大日本内國勸業博覧會製絲器械之圖」

Utagawa Kuniaki II (Japanese, 1835–1888)
Publisher: Taga Jingorô (Japanese)

Japanese

Meiji era

1877 (Meiji 10), registered October 12

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37.2 x 75 cm (14 5/8 x 29 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection

Accession Number2000.515a-c

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA/Geidai, Double Impact (2015), #59; Virgin et al., Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age (MFA, 2001), #12, photo p. 53; Sharf, Imaging Meiji (1997), #29, photo p. 20

Signed Ôju Kuniaki hitsu

Marks Artist's seal: manji

ProvenancePurchased between 1985 and 1999, probably in London or Tokyo; 2000, gift of Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: January 26, 2000)