Sara-yashiki (The Plate Mansion)

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Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Sara-yashiki (The Plate Mansion)
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Forger (Japanese, 1870 – 1927)
After (Japanese, 1760 - 1849)
Datec. 1831-1832 (printed 1920)
MediumReproduction Ukiyo-e woodblock print
DimensionsComposition: 14 × 9 in. (35.6 × 22.9 cm) Frame: 22 1/2 × 16 1/4 in. (57.2 × 41.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of William G. Roehrick, Class of 1934, H1971
Object numberS2025.2.1
Not on view
DescriptionDepicts the maid Okiku, who was bound and thrown into a well by her master after she broke a precious Korean dish. While her body perished, her spirit lived on and emerged from the well.
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Alternate Titles The Plate Mansion
unknown [from the Nightmare Series]
Markings Verso, frame backing (white paper Emerson Gallery Loan Collection label with typed text): "Artist: Unknown, Japanese / Title: From the Nightmare Series / Medium: Reproduction of colored woodcut / Credit Line: Gift of William Roehrick '34 / Accession No.: [no info]"
Inscribed Recto, bottom center, on mount (pencil): "Apparition d'Hoksai"
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Oiwa-san (The Ghost of Oiwa)
Enji Takamizawa
Date: c. 1831-1832 (printed 1920)
Medium: Reproduction Ukiyo-e woodblock print
Object number: S2025.2.3
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Kohada Koheiji (The Ghost of Kohada Koheiji)
Enji Takamizawa
Date: c. 1831-1832 (printed 1920)
Medium: Reproduction Ukiyo-e woodblock print
Object number: S2025.2.4
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Warai-hannya (The Laughling Deamoness)
Enji Takamizawa
Date: c. 1831-1832 (printed 1920)
Medium: Reproduction Ukiyo-e woodblock print
Object number: S2025.2.5
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Shûnen (Obsession)
Enji Takamizawa
Date: c. 1831-1832 (printed 1920)
Medium: Reproduction Ukiyo-e woodblock print
Object number: S2025.2.2
The Precocious Girl (Ochappii)
The Precocious Girl (Ochappii)
Kitagawa Utamaro
Date: c. 1802-1803
Medium: Nishiki-e color woodblock print on paper
Object number: 1996.15.38
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
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Katsukawa Shunsen
Date: c. 1810-1820
Medium: Polychrome woodblock print
Object number: INV.997
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Jiha Moon
Date: 2022
Medium: Stoneware with underglaze and glaze
Object number: 2022.18
Anatomy of My Universe
Anatomy of My Universe
André Masson
Date: 1943
Medium: Bound volume with 34 reproductions of pen-and-ink drawings
Object number: 1992.46.1
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Menschenkunde VII
Angelika Rinnhofer
Date: 2005
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Object number: 2020.8.3
Photograph by John Bentham.
Scene from "Imoseyama onna teikin (An Example of Noble Womanhood, or The Teachings for Women)"
Toyokuni III
Date: 1852
Medium: Polychrome woodblock print on two sheets of paper
Object number: 1994.92
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Unknown artist
Date: c. 1070-945 B.C.E.
Medium: Faience
Object number: INV.699
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Lorna Simpson
Date: 1996
Medium: Portfolio of 21 photogravures with text printed on 30C (300 lbs.) Somerset paper.
Object number: 2016.11a-u