安達吟光画 『貴女裁縫之図』|Ladies Sewing (Kijo saihō no zu)
September 3rd, 1887
Medium
Triptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Image: 14 × 28 1/2 in. (35.6 × 72.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Culture & Period
Japan · Meiji period (1868–1912)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959
Accession Number
JP3272
Tags
About the Artist
Adachi Ginkō · 1853–1908
Adachi Ginkō (安達 吟光, 1853–after 1908), born Adachi Heishichi in the spring of 1853, emerged as a prolific Japanese printmaker during the transformative Meiji era. Little is known of his early years beyond his birth in the second month of Kaei 6 (roughly March or April), but he pursued formal training under the painter Goseda Hōryū, a master of Western-style yōga techniques. This exposure to Europe...