Japanese Cage and Manchurian Cranes, from a set Advertising Giant Straw Works in a Fair Attraction Artist: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)

1820

Asian Art

On view, 4th floor, Special Exhibitions

葛飾北斎　｢麦藁張細工　倭篭・丹頂鶴｣　浮世絵錦絵　江戸時代

Medium

Ukiyo-e: polychrome woodblock print

Dimensions

sheet: 15 3/8 × 10 3/8 in. (39 × 26.4 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse

Accession Number

1953.1.22

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Mrs. Jared Kirtland Morse (Caroline Roberts Morse) (1907–1982), Cromwell, Conn.; gifted in 1953 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Bradley Michael Bailey, "Time Flies: Hokusai's Missing Crane," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007), 154–56, 158–59, fig. 2
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Marks

Seal for set on 1953.1.23. Censor’s seal: Kiwame 極 (round, relief, lower left); Publisher's seal: Sōkakudō 双鶴堂 of Tsuruya Kinsuke 鶴屋金助　("Tsurukin" 鶴金　of Edo) (image of a crane round, relief, under a reverse L shape, bottom left)\r\n

Inscriptions

Tatsu gashira hasshaku; 龍(多つ)頭(がしら) 八尺 "The dragon's head is 8 feet long" (top right, above the bar)\r\nkyū shaku ni ken no yamato kago; tanchō no tsuru go wa mugiwara nite haritate; 九尺二間能倭篭(やまと可ご)　丹頭(多んてう)の霍(つる)五羽(ご王)　むき王らにて　はり多て; "the Japanese cage is 9 feet wide and 2 ken (12 feet) long; the five red-crowned cranes are also made of straw and papier-mache. (lower centre)\r\n

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