{"id":176,"date":"2020-04-22T12:11:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T16:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/?p=176"},"modified":"2020-04-30T18:36:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T22:36:17","slug":"ten-views-of-mt-fuji-from-edo-the-ochanomizu-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/2020\/04\/ten-views-of-mt-fuji-from-edo-the-ochanomizu-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Views of Mt. Fuji from Edo: The Ochanomizu District"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/files\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-38.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-124\" width=\"418\" height=\"614\" \/><figcaption> Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) \u6b4c\u5ddd\u8c4a\u56fd (Japanese,1786-1865) <br><em>Ten Views of Mt. Fuji from Edo: The Ochanomizu District<\/em> \u6c5f\u6238\u5bcc\u58eb\u5341\u666f\u4e4b\u5185:\u5fa1\u8336\u30ce\u6c34, after 1844 <br>Woodcut on paper <br>Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard George <br>1979.PR.9.18 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The depiction of beautiful women \u7f8e\u4eba\u753b (bijin-ga) was a principal genre of Japanese prints. While this print\u2019s title focuses on the geography of Edo (modern Tokyo), it is the elegantly-dressed woman who is the true focus of the print. She is surrounded by lively streets, and the iconic scenery of Mount Fuji behind her, yet our attention focuses on the various patterned layers of her robes and the lively expression on her face. The Utagawa school was one of the central printmaking studios producing \u201cimages of the floating world\u201d \u6d6e\u4e16\u7d75 (ukiyo-e) for the middle classes of Tokyo. Prints like this adopt rules of perspective from Western images to create deep space in the scene. At the same time, Western artists, especially the Impressionists, appropriated ideas from prints like these to enhance flatness and pattern in their own works.   -Written by Lilia Theobald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The depiction of beautiful women \u7f8e\u4eba\u753b (bijin-ga) was a principal genre of Japanese prints. While this print\u2019s title focuses on the geography of Edo (modern <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/2020\/04\/ten-views-of-mt-fuji-from-edo-the-ochanomizu-district\/\" title=\"Ten Views of Mt. Fuji from Edo: The Ochanomizu District\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2926,"featured_media":312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-desire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}