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Mandarin Ducks, Iris, and Arrowheads, from a bird-and-flower series with the title Kashinsai (?)


「夏伸細」ヵ 杜若、水葵、鴛
Nishimura Shigenaga (Japanese, 1697?–1756)
Publisher: Igaya Kan'emon (Bunkidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1730 (Kyôhô 15)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (urushi-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color and nikawa
Dimensions Hosoban; 33.5 x 15.6 cm (13 3/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.713
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Paine, Oriental Art NS, v. IX, no. 1 (1963), fig. 17; Gunsaulus, AIC cat. I (1955), p. 190, #10
DescriptionThe MFA has four prints with this mysterious series title: 06.713 (signature of Shigenaga, publisher Igaya), 06.1219 (unsigned, publisher Murataya; appears to be a copy or forgery of 06.713), 11.2088 (no signature or publisher's mark), and 21.5878 (signature of Shigenaga, publisher Igaya). The meaning of the title (literally "summer + extend + details") is unclear.
Signed Yamato gakô Nishimura Shigenaga hitsu
大和画工 西村重長筆
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross