Still-life of a scholar's quarter with two sutra stones taken out of the box, a cabinet painted with Mount Fuji, a bird in a cage, and tokonoma (alcove) with a hanging scroll of bamboo Artist: Ryūryūkyo Shinsai (Japanese, ca. 1764–ca. 1820)

1821 (year of the snake)

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Surimono, shikishi-ban; polychrome woodblock print with brass, traces of silver, and light gaufrage

Dimensions

sheet: 7 15/16 × 7 1/2 in. (20.2 × 19 cm)

Credit Line

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

Loan number

ILE2017.30.141

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Joan B. Mirviss (dealer), New York; sold to Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian, Koenigstein im Taunus, Germany, 2005 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2017–present)
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

botanical, color woodcuts, surimono

Inscriptions

Yomo-gawa\r\nFour Directions Group\r\n四方側\r\n\r\nPoets\r\nTokugetsu-rō Okamori (得月楼丘守)\r\nTōitsu-sai Sekkō (偸佚斎石綱)\r\nYomo Utagaki Magao (四方歌垣真顔)

Signed

Shinsai
辰斎

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