Zhu Shouchang
Utagawa Kuniyoshi Japanese
Not on view
The preparatory drawing for a print is usually pasted on a woodblock and cut along the lines of the drawing. This surviving preparatory drawing, which was apparently not used, is extremely rare. Kuniyoshi combined old-fashioned didacticism with an atmosphere of exoticism and novelty by exploring Western pictorial techniques and characterizations, about which the general public of his time had great curiosity.
Zhu Shouchang (J.: Shu Jushō) searched and found his mother, who had disappeared during his early youth, after a separation of more than fifty years.
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