Tea Ceremony, from the series A Catalogue of the Arts

Artist: Hōtei Gosei (Japanese, 1765–1835)

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
Culture
Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification
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Provenance

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
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Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts, surimono

Marks

Go (Number five) in red emblem upper right

Inscriptions

Series: Shogei zukushi: Various Artistic Pursuits \r\nTitle: Cha, Tea Ceremony Poetry Club \r\nSeal: Go-gawa\r\n\r\nGo-gawa\r\nGo-gawa Fifth Group \r\n五側\r\n\r\nMatsu-take o\r\nKado ni kazarite\r\nCha no gu ni mo\r\nTsuru no habôki\r\nKame no kôdai\r\n\r\nMizusashi no\r\nKôri wa tokete\r\nRo no uchi ni\r\nSumi mo nagaruru\r\nUguisu no koe\r\n\r\nUta yomanu\r\nChajin mo meden\r\nKama no na no\r\nShiri-hari ni naku\r\nUguisu no koe\r\n\r\n“With the doorways\r\nAdorned with pine and bamboo,\r\nThe tea ceremony set sports\r\nA crane-feather brush and\r\nA turtle-shaped incense holder. Getsurokusai Yasumi\r\n\r\nThe water scoop\r\nBreaks through thawing ice\r\nAs the song of the warbler\r\nResounds over the coals\r\nPiled up in the tearoom hearth. Chikushian Shichidomo\r\n\r\nEven a tea adept\r\nWho cannot write poems\r\nKnows the literary names\r\nOf kettles and tea caddies-\r\nAs the warbler sings. Chikuian\r\n\r\n\r\n松竹を 門にかさりて 茶の具にも\r\nつるの羽箒 亀の香台       月六斎休\r\n\r\n水さしの 氷ハとけて 爐の内に\r\n炭も流るゝ 鴬の声        竹志菴七友\r\n\r\n歌よまぬ 茶人もめてん 釜の名の\r\nしりはりになく 鴬の声       竹意菴\r\n\r\nReference: 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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