Yang Guifei Plum, from the Series for the Hanazono Club Artist: Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)

Medium

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

Dimensions

sheet: 8 1/4 × 7 5/16 in. (21 × 18.5 cm)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2024.31.13

Geography
Culture
Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

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Provenance

Provenance

Hara Shobo (dealer), Tokyo; sold to Joan B. Mirviss (dealer), New York, by June 2003; sold to Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian, Koenigstein im Taunus, Germany, June 30, 2003 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2017–2024); given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2024
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Object/Work type

color woodcuts, surimono

Inscriptions

Series: Hanazono bantsuzuki 花園番續 A Series for the Hanazono Club 花園連Hanazono-ren \r\nThe Chinese poem entitled Yang Guifei Plum on the tanzaku poetry card on the right:\r\n楊貴妃梅\r\n紅粉幽艶欺美人\r\n芳姿清韻(?)第一品\r\nRouge and powder, profound and enchanting\r\nFragrance and form, pure and delicate; this is the best.\r\n\r\nPoet\r\nSuibaiya Momonoya Taneyoshi 水梅屋 桃廼屋種義\r\n鶯の 聲に月ほし ひよくそと 奈可(が)む連理と ならん梅可枝\r\nuguisu no/ koe ni tsuki hoshi/ hi yoku zo to/ nagamu reri to?/ naran umega ka\r\nHearing the voice of nightingale, it makes us to watch the moon, the stars, and the sun with a plum branch. \r\n\r\nPoet\r\nShunrin-sha Umetake (or Baibu) 春林舎梅武\r\nうぐい須の 玉のあり可も たづ年三ん かの楊貴妃の 梅匂ふこそ\r\nuguisu no/ tama no arika mo/ tazune min/ kano Yō Kihi no/ ume niou koso\r\nLet us inquire where the jade of the nightingale since the scent of Yang Guifei's plum wafts along.\r\n

Signed

Hokkei
北渓

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