Red carp swimming up a waterfall at night Artist: Yashima Gakutei (Japanese, ca. 1786–1868)

late 1820's

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

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

Dimensions

sheet: 8 1/4 × 7 1/16 in. (20.9 × 18 cm)

Credit Line

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

Loan number

ILE2017.30.17

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Joan B. Mirviss (dealer), New York; sold to Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian, Koenigstein im Taunus, Germany, October 20, 2003 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2017–present)
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts, surimono

Inscriptions

Jōmō Suigyo-ren\r\nJōmō Fish Club\r\n上毛水魚連\r\n\r\nPoets\r\nRoku???-en Funamori (六?園舩盛)\r\nRokkyoku-en Isseki (六曲園一隻)\r\nRokujō-en Ichi-gō Sakura no Tsubo (六帖園一号櫻の壺)

Signed

Gakutei; Sealed: Shima; Poets: Risshakuen Funamori, Rikkyokuen Issou, Rikujôen ichigô sakura no tsubo
岳亭; 島(印)

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