Fubo no on wo shiru zu, c. 1880
Item
Title
Fubo no on wo shiru zu, c. 1880
Date
1880
Description
Realize One’s Parental Love
Utagawa Yoshitora
Dates unknown
Title page. Japanese woodblock printing is similar to Western printmaking. However, Japanese printers used water-based inks which would create more intense colors, glazes, and transparency. In the West, printmakers used oil-based inks. By the late Edo Period, woodblock prints were mass produced to meet the needs of the high literacy rate in Japan.
Utagawa Yoshitora
Dates unknown
Title page. Japanese woodblock printing is similar to Western printmaking. However, Japanese printers used water-based inks which would create more intense colors, glazes, and transparency. In the West, printmakers used oil-based inks. By the late Edo Period, woodblock prints were mass produced to meet the needs of the high literacy rate in Japan.
Identifier
5.2.03.2
Rights
From the McGoogan Health Sciences Library Rare Book Collection