Minneapolis Institute of Art
Shadow Figures of a Lantern and a Hawk
Utagawa Hiroshige; Publisher: Tsutaya KichizōLinkedCulture matchlcp-e6f27f4b555d
- Date
- c. 1842
- Medium
- Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper
- Department
- Asian Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 65034
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
As comic entertainment, shadow performances were among the many diversions, including music and dance, offered at teahouse parties during the Edo period. In the eleven-print series Improvised Shadow Performances , Hiroshige depicted figures making shadows on shōji screens by contorting their bodies. The images demonstrate how to create ingenious shadows and could easily have been used as a how-to guide for clever shadow making. Japan, Asia
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Louis W. Hill, Jr.
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