Cleaning away the Old Year, The twelfth Month,
Woodblock Print
1770-1775 (made)
1770-1775 (made)
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Ishikawa Toyomasa was a print designer who specialised in pictures of children. This print belongs to a series of twelve prints entitled ‘The Twelve Months’, which depicts children at play in each month of the calendar year.
It is still the custom in Japan, as in some other Asian cultures, to give the house a thorough clean in the last month of the year. In this way the past is put behind, in preparation for the new year. Any cleaning that might have been planned by these young boys has been forgotten as fun and frolics take centre stage.
It is still the custom in Japan, as in some other Asian cultures, to give the house a thorough clean in the last month of the year. In this way the past is put behind, in preparation for the new year. Any cleaning that might have been planned by these young boys has been forgotten as fun and frolics take centre stage.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | colour print from wood blocks |
| Brief description | Pap, Japan, prints |
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| Object history | Purchased from Wright and Stanford, accessioned in 1898. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project. |
| Summary | Ishikawa Toyomasa was a print designer who specialised in pictures of children. This print belongs to a series of twelve prints entitled ‘The Twelve Months’, which depicts children at play in each month of the calendar year. It is still the custom in Japan, as in some other Asian cultures, to give the house a thorough clean in the last month of the year. In this way the past is put behind, in preparation for the new year. Any cleaning that might have been planned by these young boys has been forgotten as fun and frolics take centre stage. |
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| Accession number | E.1435-1898 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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