Daidō uranaishi (Fortuner Teller) Item Number: N2.1252 b from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Print showing a scene of a couple watching a man at a street table. Dog asleep in lower right corner. Colours are blue, brown, purple, yellow, grey and black. Black Japanese characters and red seal in lower right corner. Red characters in lower right corner of image border. The mount is marked "Made in Japan".
Narrative
This print, Daidō uranaishi (大道占師; Fortuner Teller) by Wada Sanzō (和田三造) is from the series, Showa shokugyō ezukushi daini shū (昭和職業絵尽第二輯; Occupations of Shōwa Japan in pictures, series 2), originally published by Nishinomiya shoin (西宮書院) in 1939 –1941. The original version has hand-written print and series titles. This print published by Kyoto hanga-in (京都版画院) is from a later edition. The print is signed三造 (Sanzō) with his seal in red and is marked with the publisher’s seal, 版元京都版画院 (Hanmoto Kyoto hanga-in).
Item History
- Made by Sanzo Wada (Maker) in Japan during 1950
- Owned before 1957
- Received from Leon & Thea Koerner Foundation (Funding source) and Unknown (Seller) during 1957
What
- Name
- Daidō uranaishi (Fortuner Teller)
- Identification Number
- N2.1252 b
- Type of Item
- Manufacturing Technique
- woodblock printed and painted
- Overall
- height 36.2 cm, width 46.0 cm
- Image
- height 28.5 cm, width 40.6 cm
Who
- Culture
- Japanese
- Creator
- Sanzo Wada (Maker)
- Previous Owner
- “Unknown” ?
- Received from
- Leon & Thea Koerner Foundation (Funding source) and Unknown (Seller)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Japan
When
- Creation Date
- during 1950
- Ownership Date
- before 1957
- Acquisition Date
- during 1957
Other
- Item Classes
- works on paper
- Condition
- good