Puppy with a Slice of Dried Salmon Artist: Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)

1825 (Year of the Rooster)

Asian Art

Medium

Surimono, shikishi-ban; polychrome woodblock print with light gauffrage

Dimensions

sheet: 8 7/16 × 7 5/16 in. (21.5 × 18.5 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian, B.A. 1970

Accession Number

2021.39.2

Geography
Culture
Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Sale, Christie's, New York, September 22, 2004, lot 46. Joan B. Mirviss (dealer), New York; sold to Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian, Koenigstein im Taunus, Germany, 2005 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2017–2021); given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2021
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Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts, surimono

Inscriptions

Shippō-ren\r\nSeven Treasures Club\r\n七宝連\r\n\r\nPoets\r\nChōshi-en Yoshio (丁子園芳雄)\r\nFukurai-sha Emikado (福来舎笑門)\r\n\r\nPoem 1 by Chōshi-en Yoshio\r\n子日春る 野辺尓こ以ぬも うち無れて も能飛くことを ならひそ免介り\r\n(子日する 野辺に子犬も うち慣れて 物引くことを 習いそめけり)\r\nNe no hi suru/ nobe ni koinu mo/ uchinare te/ monohiku koto wo/ narai some keri\r\nOn the day of Rat when people gp out to pull young pines as a New Year custom, even a puppy in the field has learned to pull things.\r\n\r\nPoem 2 by Fukurai-sha Emikado\r\n雨能恩 し連る芽者へも か者ゆらし をさ那きいぬの 春能わ可草\r\n(雨の恩 知れる芽ばえも 可愛ゆらし 幼き犬の 春の若草)\r\name no on/ shireru mebae mo/ kawayu rashi/ osanaki inu no/ haru no wakakusa\r\nThe buds nurtured in the rain grow to be young spring grass just like a lovable puppy.

Signed

Hokkei; Poets: Chôshien Yoshio, Fukuraisha Emikado
北渓

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