Kosome
Artist/Culture
Adachi Ginko
(Japanese, active 1874–1897)
Date1881
MediumWoodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, with mica (kirazuri)
Techniques: graduated colors (bokashi) and blind printing (karazuri)
DimensionsAiban; 35 x 23.8 cm (13 ¾ x 9 3/8 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineAsiatic Art Association and Asiatic Art Members' Matching Fund
Object number1989.156
Label TextKosome—a historic figure who settled in Hawaii in 1859 and became a schoolteacher—wears an elaborate dress that epitomizes the fine sewing of late Victorian nineteenth-century dress, where attention to complex folds and elaborate lace trim instead defined high fashion in nineteenth-century America.On View
Not on view
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡 芳年
1888
Utagawa Toyokuni I 歌川 豊国
c. 1802
