Updated 28 April 2022
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<JOURNEY TO CHINA>: (9) A CHINESE DANCE: One is greatly mistaken if one believes the Chinese people to be giddy, joyful and the friend of pleasure: they are on the contrary serious and morose, since their greatest amusement consists in a type of lugubrious walking in which the men and women walk one in front of the other, or one beside the other, and seem to be saying among themselves: brother we should die! In order also to point to the philosophical intention behind this ceremony, the opposite of dancing, they call it: Counter-dancing.
Date | 1844 |
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Materials and Techniques | lithograph |
Size(cm) | 24.3 x 19.7 |
Inscriptions | Unsigned on the stone; numbered on the stone, lower left: 604 |
Standard ref. | Delteil 1197 (ii/ii), Tobu III-195 |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.2000-1460 |
Provenance
Peter Morse; Tobu Museum of Art (Tobu Railway Company); Purchased by the NMWA, 2001.
Exhibition History
- 2010
- [Prints and Drawings Exhibition] Outsiders, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 10 December 2010 - 13 February 2011, cat. no. 83
Bibliography
- 2002
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 35 (Apr. 2000-Mar. 2001), 2002, Takahashi, Akiya. New Acquisitions. pp. 14-15, List of New Acquisitions. p. 122.