Kyoka poet Honen Yukimaro Artist: Kitao Masanobu (Japanese, 1761–1816)

1786 or 1787

Asian Art

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Polychrome woodbock print: a book page

Dimensions

sheet: 7 15/16 × 5 13/16 in. (20.2 × 14.7 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

1967.64.92

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
  • George J. Lee, Edo Culture in Japanese prints, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1972), 21, 24–25, 42, no. 6, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Inscriptions

Honen Yukimaru\r\nToshi no saka/ noboru kuruma no waga yowai/ yudan wo shitemo/ ato e modorazu\r\n\r\nTranslation (RM): I grow older as though I am on a vehicle going up the hill of age. A vehicle may slip down a hill if one is not careful, but no matter what I do, I cannot retrace my footsteps and grow younger.\r\n豊年雪丸\r\nとしの坂　の本゛る車の　王可゛よ者ひ　油断をし天も　跡へもどら寿゛

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