Details

Subject(s)

• Andō, Hiroshige 1797-1858—Fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō [Browse]
• Einstein, Albert 1879-1955—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Tōkaidō (Japan)—In art [Browse]
• Color prints, Japanese—Edo period, 1600-1868 [Browse]

Artist

• Okamoto, Ippei, 1886-1948 [Browse]

Former owner

• Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Accordion fold format [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• color woodcuts (prints)—Japan—19th century [Browse]

Notes

• Medium: Color woodblock prints
• Caption title. Imprint from second print.
• Date from Ukiyoe jiten, 1977.
• Folding book, with color prints mounted on both sides, in case.
• Princeton copy 1 Original ink wash caricature of Albert Einstein, drawn on back endpaper by Okamoto Ippei in December 1922 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Signed by Einstein under drawing: "Albert Einstein / in herzlichen Dankbarkeit." This was during Einstein’s tour of Japan so this must have been his copy of the prints.

Title on title piece mounted on cover

• Jinbutsu gojūsantsugi

OCLC

36503359

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