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Image Title: Blossom Time In Tokyo, 1914

Creator: Hyde, Helen, 1868-1919, artist

Date: 1914 Oct. 8.

Summary: Print shows mothers and children drinking tea and eating among cherry blossoms.

Notes: Exhibited: "Sakura : Cherry Blossom as Living Symbol of Friendship" in the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, , Washington, D.C., 2012.|Exhibit caption: After Japan expanded several ports to trade and commerce by Western powers in the 1850s, Western appreciation of Japanese art quickly followed. In 1872, French collector and printmaker Philippe Burty coined the term japonisme, which came to describe the work of Western artists influenced by Japanese aesthetics and subject matter. Notable American practitioners included Helen Hyde (1868-1919) who studied woodblock carving in Tokyo and made her residence there from 1899 to 1914.

Subjects: Cherry trees--Japan--Tokyo--1910-1920
Festivals--Japan--Tokyo--1910-1920
Mothers & children--Japan--Tokyo--1910-1920

Original Media: Woodcut print

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