Sakai-chō, from the series Famous Foods of the Eastern Capital

Artist: Hōtei Gosei (Japanese, 1765–1835)

ca. 1815 (year of the boar)

Asian Art

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
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, 2001 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2017–present)
Object copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts, surimono

Marks

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

Inscriptions

Go-gawa \r\nGo-gawa (Fifth) Group \r\n五側 \r\n\r\nPoet\r\nKitsuju-en Sanae (橘樹園早苗), Judge of the Go-gawa\r\n\r\nNaniwazu ni \r\nNa ni shi toraya no\r\nMushigashi wa\r\nUmemi no kyaku no\r\nMotenashi ni sen\r\n\r\n“At plum-viewing parties\r\nGuests are served\r\nSteamed sweet buns\r\nFrom the famous Toraya\r\nNear Naniwa Bay. Ai no Tanezuki”\r\n\r\nReference: Ota p. 106 (cat.no. 58), translation by John T. Carpenter\r\n*Still need modern reading and translation of 5 more poems. Also need to verify the transcription of the second poem.\r\nつれつれ草\r\nミすのうちよりみきくたものなといたされたる\r\n\r\n菓物に おさなき春や なしむらん \r\nわかあとをおふ 風の梅か香             木並氏人\r\n\r\n蒸籠の 手名(Ota注:カ)にとらの 春風を\r\nおとして匂ふ なにはつの梅              夢中庵夜舟\r\n\r\n難波津に 名にしとらやの むし菓子ハ\r\n梅見の客の もてなしにせん             藍種好\r\n\r\n寅薬師 はつに詣し 家土産ハ\r\n今さかりなる 梅の一折               萬年亭池住\r\n\r\n天の戸の 明たる口へ 餅菓子ハ\r\n生写画の 春のいろすり               巌遊亭甲良\r\n\r\nさく花を 見てをかしとや お菓子とや\r\n梅ゝといふ いとけなき春               森羅亭  \r\n\r\n

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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