Tea Ceremony, from the series A Catalogue of the Arts Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1811–13

Medium: Surimono, vertical ko‑ban; polychrome woodblock print with brass
Dimensions: sheet: 8 1/4 × 5 9/16 in. (21 × 14.1 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian, B.A. 1970
Accession Number: 2024.31.6
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: Prints
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Provenance

Estate of Robert Enequist, Brooklyn, New York; sold to Joan B. Mirviss (dealer), New York, by May, 1995; sold to Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian, Koenigstein im Taunus, Germany, May, 1995 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2017–2024); given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2024

Bibliography

Joan B. Mirviss and John T. Carpenter, Jewels of Japanese Printmaking: Surimono of the Bunka-Bunsei Era 1804–1830 (Tokyo: Ota Memorial Museum of Art, 2000), 70–71, no. 22

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts, surimono

Marks

Go (Number five) in red emblem upper right

Inscriptions

Series: Shogei zukushi: Various Artistic Pursuits
Title: Cha, Tea Ceremony Poetry Club
Seal: Go-gawa

Go-gawa
Go-gawa Fifth Group
五側

Matsu-take o
Kado ni kazarite
Cha no gu ni mo
Tsuru no habôki
Kame no kôdai

Mizusashi no
Kôri wa tokete
Ro no uchi ni
Sumi mo nagaruru
Uguisu no koe

Uta yomanu
Chajin mo meden
Kama no na no
Shiri-hari ni naku
Uguisu no koe

“With the doorways
Adorned with pine and bamboo,
The tea ceremony set sports
A crane-feather brush and
A turtle-shaped incense holder. Getsurokusai Yasumi

The water scoop
Breaks through thawing ice
As the song of the warbler
Resounds over the coals
Piled up in the tearoom hearth. Chikushian Shichidomo

Even a tea adept
Who cannot write poems
Knows the literary names
Of kettles and tea caddies-
As the warbler sings. Chikuian

松竹を　門にかさりて　茶の具にも
つるの羽箒　亀の香台　　　　　　　月六斎休

水さしの　氷ハとけて　爐の内に
炭も流るゝ　鴬の声　　　　　　　　竹志菴七友

歌よまぬ　茶人もめてん　釜の名の
しりはりになく　鴬の声　　　　　　竹意菴

Reference: Ota p. 70 (cat. no. 22), translation by John T. Carpenter

Signed

Gosei ga (painted by Gosei)
五清画
抱亭五清＝砂山金蔵＝砂山五清 (active 1804-1835; 1768-1835)

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