Sakai-chō, from the series Famous Foods of the Eastern Capital Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1815 (year of the boar)

Medium: Surimono, shikishi-ban; polychrome woodblock print with brass and gaufrage
Dimensions: sheet: 8 1/16 × 7 1/16 in. (20.5 × 18 cm)
Credit Line: Promised gift of Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian, B.A. 1970
Loan number: ILE2017.30.107
Geography: Associated place: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: Prints
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance

Joan B. Mirviss (dealer), New York; sold to Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian, Koenigstein im Taunus, Germany, 2001 (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 woodcut (process), color woodcuts, paper (fiber product), surimono

Marks

"go" (Five) emblem in red lines upper right

Inscriptions

Go-gawa
Go-gawa (Fifth) Group
五側

Poet
Kitsuju-en Sanae (橘樹園早苗), Judge of the Go-gawa

Naniwazu ni
Na ni shi toraya no
Mushigashi wa
Umemi no kyaku no
Motenashi ni sen

“At plum-viewing parties
Guests are served
Steamed sweet buns
From the famous Toraya
Near Naniwa Bay. Ai no Tanezuki”

Reference: Ota p. 106 (cat.no. 58), translation by John T. Carpenter
*Still need modern reading and translation of 5 more poems. Also need to verify the transcription of the second poem.
つれつれ草
ミすのうちよりみきくたものなといたされたる

菓物に　おさなき春や　なしむらん　
わかあとをおふ　風の梅か香　　　　　　　　　　　　　木並氏人

蒸籠の　手名（Ota注：カ）にとらの　春風を
おとして匂ふ　なにはつの梅　　　　　　　　　　　　　夢中庵夜舟

難波津に　名にしとらやの　むし菓子ハ
梅見の客の　もてなしにせん　　　　　　　　　　　　　藍種好

寅薬師　はつに詣し　家土産ハ
今さかりなる　梅の一折　　　　　　　　　　　　　　萬年亭池住

天の戸の　明たる口へ　餅菓子ハ
生写画の　春のいろすり　　　　　　　　　　　　　　巌遊亭甲良

さく花を　見てをかしとや　お菓子とや
梅ゝといふ　いとけなき春　　　　　　　　　　　　　　森羅亭　　

Signed

Gosei hitsu (brushed by Gosei); Sealed: Go Sei
五清筆; 五清(印)
抱亭五清＝砂山金蔵＝砂山五清 (active 1804-1835; 1768-1835)

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