“Act II, Scene 2: Along Train Tracks in America,” from the series The Strange Tale of the Castaways: A Western Kabuki
Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005
Catalogue
- Year
- 1879
- Dimensions
- image: 13 7/8 x 9 in. (35.2 x 22.9 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Adachi Ginkō
Artist
Printmaking
Adachi Ginkō was a Japanese artist best known for his prints in the ukiyo-e style as a member of the Utagawa school. He worked in a variety of genres, including portraits of beauties and actors, landscapes, book illustrations, and satirical works, and produced a large number of triptychs of contemporary events. His most successful work was his Pictorial Outline of Japanese History series of triptychs in the late 1880s. He was jailed and fined in 1889 for caricaturing the Meiji Emperor.
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“Act II, Scene 5: At the Opera in Paris,” from the series The Strange Tale of the Castaways: A Western Kabuki
1879 · Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper; vertical ōban
Record
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- Adachi Ginkō
- Year
- 1879
- Dimensions
- image: 13 7/8 x 9 in. (35.2 x 22.9 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1879-323157
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
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- verified