The First Cutting of the Nails at the New Year, from the Series for the Hanazono Club Artist: Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)

Early 1820s

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Surimono, shikishi-ban; polychrome woodblock print with gold, silver, and gaufrage

Dimensions

sheet: 8 1/16 × 7 3/16 in. (20.4 × 18.3 cm)

Credit Line

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

Loan number

ILE2017.30.153

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, 2004 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2017–present)
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts, surimono

Inscriptions

Hanazono-ren\r\nHanazono Club\r\n花園連\r\n\r\nPoets\r\nSenfu; Ryūshoku-tei Harutatsu (仙府　柳色亭春竜)\r\nSame as above; Ryūfū-dō Itoyori (仝　柳凬堂糸頼)

Signed

Hokkei
北渓

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