Ichikawa Danjūrō VII as Sukeroku, Facing a Mirror Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)

Medium

Surimono, shikishi-ban; polychrome woodblock print

Dimensions

sheet: 8 1/4 × 7 1/16 in. (21 × 18 cm)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2021.39.8

Geography
Culture
Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Joan B. Mirviss (dealer), New York; sold to Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian, Koenigstein im Taunus, Germany, 2002 (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

Image title:\r\nSakuragawa Oya no Omokage (櫻川親迺面影)\r\nPoet:\r\nSakuragawa Jihinari(櫻川慈悲成)\r\n\r\nPoem 1:\r\n春能雨 志っ本り夜半の だんまり尓 梅可香應ふ 風の手さぐ里\r\n(春の雨 しっぽり夜半の だんまりに 梅が香答う 風の手探り)\r\nharu no ame/ shippori yowa no/ danmari ni/ umega ka kotau/ kaze no tesaguri\r\nSaturated by the spring rain deep in the night, there was no word but only the plum scent answers fumbling in the wind.\r\n\r\nPoem 2:\r\n青柳尓 者る雨津多ふ 玉水の 阿多りもつよき 手から可さ可那\r\n(青柳に 春雨つたう 玉水の 当たりも強き 手柄傘かな)\r\naoyagi ni/ harusame tsutau/ tamamizu no/ atari mo tsuyoki/ tegara gasa kana\r\nOver the green willow branches, the spring shower rolls down like jewels. The umbrella is a winner hard against the hitting.

Signed

Toyokuni ga (painted by Toyokuni) at lower left
豊國画

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