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.
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Enji Takamizawa
Date: c. 1831-1832 (printed 1920)
Medium: Reproduction Ukiyo-e woodblock print
Object number: S2025.2.4
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
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Enji Takamizawa
Date: c. 1831-1832 (printed 1920)
Medium: Reproduction Ukiyo-e woodblock print
Object number: S2025.2.5
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
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Enji Takamizawa
Date: c. 1831-1832 (printed 1920)
Medium: Reproduction Ukiyo-e woodblock print
Object number: S2025.2.2
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Kitagawa Utamaro
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Object number: 1996.15.38
Photo by John Bentham.
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George Catlin
Date: 1845
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Object number: 1959.125
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
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Katsukawa Shunsen
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Photo by John Bentham.
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Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.127
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Photo by John Bentham.
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Dorothy Shakespear
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Angelika Rinnhofer
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Photo by John Bentham.
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Date: 1845
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.123