Leaping Carp

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Photo by John Bentham.
Leaping Carp
Photo by John Bentham.
Date1910-1920
MediumSigned color woodblock print on paper
DimensionsComposition: 13 3/4 × 7 1/2 in. (34.9 × 19.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Omar S. Pound, Class of 1951
Object number2024.1.4
On view
DescriptionDepicts a carp leaping from the water

Additional Details

Provenance Gift of Omar S. Pound, Class of 1951
Markings Seal stamp in red ink lower left corner: Koson
Signature Signed in ink at upper right: [Kanji]
Inscribed Inscribed in pencil on verso at lower right: F-1

Black ink characters in lower left corner: Koson signature
Carp in Waterfall
Date: Published c. 1830 - 1844
Medium: Woodblock print on paper, mounted to gold paper.
Object number: 2024.17
© Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton …
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Toyohara Kunichika
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Medium: Color woodblock print on paper
Object number: 1985.45
Photograph by John Bentham.
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Date: 1852
Medium: Polychrome woodblock print on two sheets of paper
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Medium: Color woodblock print on paper
Object number: 1985.41
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Werner Drewes
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Medium: Color woodblock print on paper
Object number: 1988.12
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Shunkôsai Hokushû
Date: January 1823
Medium: Color woodblock print on paper
Object number: 1985.44
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Medium: Color woodblock print on paper
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Medium: Color woodblock print on paper
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Date: 1802
Medium: Nishiki-e color woodblock print on paper
Object number: 1996.15.38
Photo by John Bentham.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
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Medium: Woodblock print
Object number: 1985.46a-b
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Katsushika Hokusai
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Medium: Color woodblock print
Object number: 1996.15.7