Petting Ox with white goat Artist: Katsukawa Shuntei (Japanese, 1770–1820)

probably 1817 (year of the ox)

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

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

Dimensions

sheet: 8 3/8 × 7 5/16 in. (21.2 × 18.5 cm)

Credit Line

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

Loan number

ILE2017.30.259

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

Inscriptions

(Painter) Tachibana Morikuni no zu wo motte Shuntei sha \r\n(Shuntei painted following the design by Tachibana Morikuni) \r\n \r\n(Poet: 1) Shinano Zenkō (pun with Zenkōji temple in Shinano) \r\nYao yorozu no/ kami tachi atsume/ surimono ni/ tsukau hitsuji no (NOT Mappou? Cf. Mirviss Inv. 8878)/ haru zo medetaki\r\n1. Eight hundred entire gods are gathered to "rub" the oxen (nadeushi) with sheep, how congratulatory this spring ???\r\n\r\n(Poet 2) Hyakujusai Hiromaru (meaning hundred year longevity spread widely)\r\nNanatsume no/ un no mamori to/ Nadeushi no/ haru wo tōshite/ niou umega ka\r\n2. The lucky seventh luck was kept for the nadeushi (ox statue for rubbing) and throughout the spring, the plum scent has been fragrant.\r\n\r\nSO 10-16-18 \r\n\r\n\r\n橘守國以啚　春亭写\r\n\r\n \r\n信濃善好\r\n八百よろ川乃　か三たち阿津め　す里物に　徒可ふ未能　春そ免天多喜\r\n \r\n百寿斎廣丸\r\n七ツ目農　運乃守里登　撫丑能　者奈を通し天　匂ふ梅可香\r\n

Signed

Tachibana Morikuni (zu ni nisete?) Shuntei sha
橘守國似圖春亭写

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