Folding-Fan Kite | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1830

Medium: Surimono, shikishi-ban; polychrome woodblock print with brass pigment and light gauffrage
Dimensions: sheet: 8 1/8 × 7 3/16 in. (20.6 × 18.3 cm)
Credit Line: Promised gift of Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian, B.A. 1970
Loan number: ILE2017.30.258
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, 2016 (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

Marks

Seal: Eisen

Inscriptions

Sankō-ren\r\nThree Lights Club\r\n三光連\r\n(under Yomo-gawa? *狂歌堂)\r\n\r\nPoets\r\nBanzai-tei Tamanari (万歳亭玉成)\r\nShūfū-en Hananushi (穐風園花主)\r\nChikushi-en Itoyori (竹芝園糸頼)\r\nKyoka-dō (狂歌堂)

Signed

Keisai; Sealed: Eisen
渓斎; 英泉(印)

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