A second identical print exist in the print collection. Framed. One of the 28 prints by Wendell Black, Owned by the OSU foundation and stored by the art department for safe keeping. For awhile they were stored in the archieves in cardboard boxes and in newsprintk, which was beginning to stain and ruin these prints. The art department via Douglas Russell, curator and Berkley Chappell, Chairman, offered to store them in teh Collections print file to protect them. Black and white print, signed and titled on the bottom of print.
Title: "Dark Cloud". Using vertical cuts, a beautifully textured sky is rendered fully utilizing the nature of the wood to portray a stormy sky with a dark cloud near the center of the image. The dark foreground holds only a few horizontal cuts, with trees and a small house on the horizon.
Title: "The Gate Keeper, Sakuramaru". Signed By: (Toyokuni) Kunisada 1785-1865. Publisher's seal: Yebisu-ya with "Kiwame" Seal. Descriptive Title: Sakuramaro- name of Gate Keeper. Kunisada's work signed with his later name of Toyokuni are not very good. In his later years he did no more than the first outline drawing of a print, leaving his pupils to carry out the color scheme, and exercising no supervision of his printers. There are inumerable actor-portraits of his.
Title: "Entertainer and Her Attendants" or "Oiran and Kamuro". Explanation: Kuniyasu did rather uncommonwork. The Oiran dresses in splendor and his coiffure is of an elaborate nature. They are distinguished by wearing the sash (obi) tied in front. The "kamura" are children bought by the yaro-ya keepers at the age of 5 or 6. The man is holding a paper folding lantern.
Title: "Cherry Blossoms of the Sumida River". Explanation: Kuniyoshi also used manes Ichiyusai and Cho-o-ro. Right: Woman with toy instrument, after a day of viewing flowers. Medium: Woman and child calling back to husband. Left: Husband with umbrella and tobacco pipe in hand.
Title: "Cherry Blossoms of the Sumida River". Explanation: Kuniyoshi also used manes Ichiyusai and Cho-o-ro. Right: Woman with toy instrument, after a day of viewing flowers. Medium: Woman and child calling back to husband. Left: Husband with umbrella and tobacco pipe in hand.
This is one of his later works. This is a 3 sheet upright print called (Ta teye-Sammai-tsuzuki). Uyeno Park is still a famous park for its cherry blossoms in present day Japan. Here, the customers (of elderly women) of the 19th century can be seen. In the background is the famous Shiruizu Temple.
Title: "Morning of the Theatrical Opening at Sakai, Yedo". Explanation: People rushing to the gates for the opening with lunch boxes and floor mat covering. This woman is disorderly dressed.