Set of 40 color prints made after fabric designs by Sugimura Kozan for the Hakkougire company, with portfolio case

Object Details

• Artist

  Sugimura Kozan

• Publisher

  Happodo 八宝堂

• Description

  FSC-GR-788.1-.40: Set of 40 prints of designs stored in a portfolio case. Each print is mounted on a board with a cover sheet hinged to the board. Printed on each cover sheet is [Japanese characters].

  FSC-GR-788.41: Portfolio case has tray to hold the individual prints, the tray has two straps for lifting out of the case. On the outside of the case is a paper label printed [Japanese characters]. On the bottom of the case interior is a fragmented printed paper label with Japanese characers.

  The cover of the top print has two seals of Japanese characters in red ink printed at lower right.

  Written in pencil on the cover sheet of the top print:

  40 plates

  Clarkson Stevens

  Tokyo

  4-4-50

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Donna Strahan in memory of her grandfather, Clarkson Gray Stevens

• Type

  Print

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1930s

• Name

  Happodo, Sugimura, Kozan

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Showa era (1926 - 1989), Japanese Art

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Prints