Perlman Teaching Museum - Jidai Kagami (Mirror of the Ages)

Bookmark: https://artcollection.carleton.edu/objects-1/info/2454

Jidai Kagami (Mirror of the Ages)

1897
19th century
14 1/2 x 9 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (368 x 241 x 38 mm)

Toyohara Chikanobu, Japanese, (1837–1912)

Object Type: Prints

Creation Place: Asia, Japan

Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper

Credit Line: Carleton College Art Collection, purchased with funds from the Committee for Studies in the Arts, Women's Studies, Asian Studies, Art and Art History, Gould Library and the Art Gallery

Accession Number: 2004.018

Accordion-bound folio comprising thirty woodblock prints presenting "large head portraits" of beauties from various ages in Japanese history. Each age is defined by the dress and hairdo of the beautiful woman, and by a narrative vignette appearing above the portrait head. The second volume (not in the Carleton Collection), containing twenty-three beauties, completes the set.

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19th Century, color woodcuts, Japanese, paper (fiber product)*, prints (visual works)*, temple blocks*, woodcuts (prints)*

19th Century
color woodcuts
Japanese
paper (fiber product) - Refers generally to all types of matted or felted sheets or webs of fiber formed and dried on a fine screen from a pulpy water suspension. The fibers may be animal, such as hair, silk or wool, or mineral, such as asbestos, or synthetic. However most paper is made from cellulosic plant fiber, such as from wood pulp, grass, cotton, linen, and straw.
prints (visual works) - Pictorial works produced by transferring images by means of a matrix such as a plate, block, or screen, using any of various printing processes. When emphasizing the individual printed image, use "impressions." Avoid the controversial expression "original prints," except in reference to discussions of the expression's use. If prints are neither "reproductive prints" nor "popular prints," use just "prints." With regard to photographs, see "photographic prints"; for types of reproductions of technical drawings and documents, see terms found under "reprographic copies."
temple blocks - Woodblocks used in temple rituals in China, Japan, and Korea.
woodcuts (prints) - Prints made using the process of woodcut.