Album of woodblock prints, Volume 16 from a set of 17 volumes labeled as "Panels."

Object Details

• Artist

  Ohara Koson 小原古邨 (1877-1945)

• Publisher

  Daikokuya

• Description

  From a set of print sample albums issued Daikokuya, Tokyo publisher. Volumes 1-17 of "Panels", each volume with (originally) 12 prints by various artists (some prints now removed or missing). Paper label attached to the cover of each volumes, inscribed in ink: "Panels."

  The volumes are each numbered on the cover label with a rubber-stamped number identifying the volume number. However, the prints are numbered consectutively through the whole set of volumes: 1 through 204. Again, this number is rubber-stamped on the volume page above the print.

  In this volume, the prints on the page rubber-stamped "183" and "189" have been removed and was added by Muller to his collection. See records S2003.8.1926 and S2003.8.1824 respectively.

• Inscriptions

  Paper label attached to the cover, inscribed in ink: "Panels."

  Numbered on the cover label with a rubberstamped: 16

  Pg. 181

  Written on album page above print, most probably by Robert Muller: KOSON

  Rubber-stamped on album page above print: 181

  Pg. 182

  Written on album page above print, most probably by Robert Muller: 84 [within circle]

  Rubber-stamped on album page above print: 182

  Pg.184

  Written on album page above print, most probably by Robert Muller: 25 copies 114 [within

  circle]

  Rubber-stamped on album page above print: 184

  Pg. 185

  Rubber-stamped on album page above print: 185

  Pg. 187

  Rubber-stamped on album page above print: 187

  Pg. 188

  Rubber-stamped on album page above print: 188

  Pg. 189

  Rubber-stamped on album page above print: 189

  Pg. 190

  Written on album page above print, most probably by Robert Muller: 25 copies 48

  Rubber-stamped on album page above print: 190

  Pg. 191

  Rubber-stamped on album page above print: 191

  Pg. 192

  Written on album page above print, most probably by Robert Muller: 85

  Written on album page above print, most probably by Robert Muller: 85

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Robert O. Muller Collection

• Type

  Print

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1950s

• Name

  Daikokuya, Ohara, Koson

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Water, Art, Goose, Owl, Moon, Robert O. Muller collection, Outer space, Gafu, Birds, Eagles, Animals, Showa era (1926 - 1989), Fishes, Japanese Art, Gulls, Sparrow, Bamboo

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Prints