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
Rights
Public Domain
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...