Woman Fulling cloth in Settsu Province, from the series Six Jewel Rivers in Old Poems

19th century

Medium: Ukiyo-e: Polychrome woodblock print
Dimensions: sheet: 9 13/16 × 7 3/16 in. (25 × 18.2 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: 1967.64.66
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: Prints
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Provenance

Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1967 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Suzanne E. Wright and Melissa Walt Thompson, Working in the Floating World, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), no. 15, fig. 4

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Marks

Publisher’s seal mark: Nakabashi Matsukawa-chō Muraichi 中者し　松川丁　村市 (rectangular, relief, lower left)\r\nCensor’s seal mark: Muramatsu 村松 (round, relief, upper right alongside with the signature)\r\n

Inscriptions

Koka Mu Tama-gawa: Settsu tōi 古歌六玉河　拙津擣衣 (upper right)\r\nPoem: “Matsukaze no/ oto dani aki ha/ sabishiki ni/ koromo utsu nari/ Tama-gawa no sato” 松風能　音多尓秋八　さひしき尓　衣う川なり　多満川のさ登\r\nThe sound of wind in the pine/ by itself brings forlorn autumn/ fulling cloth enhances/ at the village by the Tama River. (trans. temporary)\r\n

Signed

“Hiroshige ga” (“painted by Hiroshige”) 廣重画 (upper right)

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