IDNO

D.44775.RDG

Description

“The Kagura Dance”; “Priestess (Miko) and musicians. The illustration is from Kummo dzu-ye by Nakamura Yosai, 1789. For the photograph from which it is reproduced I am indebted to my fried, Professor W. Gowland, F.R.S., our best authority on Japanese Prehistoric Archaeology.” [Ridgeway's caption, 1915, p.309, Fig. 69, JD 14/10/2008]

Place

E Asia; Japan

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Yosai, Nakamura [Original Artist]; Gowland, W. (Prof.)

Collector / Expedition

Ridgeway, William

Date

1789; circa 1915

Collection Name

Ridgeway Collection

Source

Gowland, W. (Professor)

Format

Photomechanical Book Illustration

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.44774.RDG - P.44785.RDG were found in the envelope now numbered C197/1/. This was found in the brown envelope now numbered C197/ which came from the wooden drawer VI.

The contents of C197/ and C197/1/ are related. See archive reference.

The images on P.44774.RDG are duplicates of P.44786.RDG, P.14369.RDG, P.44838.RDG, P.14370.RDG, P.14371.RDG, P.14372.RDG, and P.14373.RDG.