From the Harvard Art Museums’ collections Gifts of the Ebb Tide (Shiohi no tsuto)

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1985.691
People: Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese (1753 [?] - 1806)
Title: Gifts of the Ebb Tide (Shiohi no tsuto)
Other Titles: Transliterated Title: Shiohi no tsuto
Classification: Prints
Work Type: book
Date: 1789
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period: Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture: Japanese

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Woodblock printed book; ink, color, shell fragments, and slight mica on decorated paper with gold and silver foil decoration
Dimensions: H. 27.3 x W. 19.1 cm (10 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia
Accession Year: 1985
Object Number: 1985.691
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
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Exhibition History

Women and the Arts of Asia, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/10/1994 - 03/05/1995

Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Paintings from China, Korea, and Japan, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/25/2000 - 08/26/2001

Japan on Paper, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/25/2019 - 08/11/2019

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