Medium

Ehon, polychrome woodblock printed book with gauffrage, metal dust, gold and silver leaf.

Dimensions

sheet (Book Open): 9 × 14 3/4 in. (22.8 × 37.5 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen, Mr. and Mrs. Laurens Hammond, and Mr. and Mrs. Knight Woolley, B.A. 1917

Accession Number

1967.64.3

Geography
Culture
Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1967 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 247, no. 461, ill.
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Additional information

Inscriptions

Publisher's name is written at the end of the postscript, "Shorin Koshodo Tsutaya Juzaburo shi"\r\n(First kyōka) 読人白寿(よみびとしらず)\r\n浮む瀬の 貝の盃 飛らは舞登(ひらわんと) し本飛の可多耳(潮干の潟に)可ゝ里亭ぞゆく\r\n(last kyōka) 真竹節穴(?)\r\n一對耳 阿半須婦多美の 浦毛やう 誰も支て三よ 春のかい登里\r\n(いっついに 合わす二見の 浦模様 誰も来て見よ 春の貝取り)\r\n

Signed

Postscript bears "Gakou Kitagawa Utamaro zu" (Painting design by artisan K U); seal "Mizukara ikka wo nasu" (I established my own house).

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