https://www.nla.gov.au/japanese/cloughs-kuchie-frontispiece-prints-collection
Overview
From Paula Curtis Collection[1]: A comprehensive collection of over 430 Japanese frontispiece prints (kuchie) and some original publications with kuchie prints. Japanese popular novels and literary magazines of the late 1890s to the 1920s often included frontispiece images (kuchie). These woodblock prints were intended to depict the themes of the novel or story, which were aimed at women and had common themes of love, war and the vicissitudes of life. Produced to a high standard using traditional methods, kuchie prints were refined and beautiful. The choice of subjects - beautiful women, couples, heroes, folk tales - provides a contemporary frame of reference for the topics treated in the stories, while the styles of depiction reflected changes in the Japanese way of life. The Clough Collection is a remarkably comprehensive group of woodblock prints representing a genre of literary fiction illustration in Japan at a key moment in its social history.
- Period: Modern
- Geographic Focus: Japan
- Access: Open Access
Digital Humanities Resources on East Asia by Dr. Paula R. Curtis ↩︎