A Puppet Made from a Bucket, A Lady of the Enpō Era (1673–1681), from the series Thirty-six Elegant Selections (1894): Art, History and Details

A Puppet Made from a Bucket, A Lady of the Enpō Era (1673–1681), from the series Thirty-six Elegant Selections (1894) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Mizuno Toshikata (Japanese, 1866–1908).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Each of the prints in the series Thirty-six Elegant Selections features a woman from a different time period, as befits an artist who was interested in history painting. Most of the prints are set in the Edo period (1615–1868). Mizuno Toshikata was a favored student of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892), and took over his post as a newspaper illustrator.

Object facts

• Title: A Puppet Made from a Bucket, A Lady of the Enpō Era (1673–1681), from the series Thirty-six Elegant Selections
• Date: 1894
• Creator attribution: Mizuno Toshikata (Japanese, 1866–1908)
• Culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
• Type: Print
• Technique: Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 2017.75

Collection credit

Gift of the Norman W. Zaworski Trust

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