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A Good Time for the First Boat Ride (Funenorizome yoshi), from the series Series for the Hanazono Group (Hanazono bantsuzuki)


「花園番続 ふねのりそめよし」
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1824 (Bunsei 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, silver, and bronze on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 20.7 x 18 cm (8 1/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line General Funds
Accession Number00.1900
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Forrer, Surimono (2013), #301; Keyes, Art of Surimono (Chester Beatty cat., 1985), vol. 1, #119; Rijksmuseum cat. III, Hokusai and His School (1982), #169
DescriptionPoems translated in Keyes 1985, vol. 1, p. 148.
Signed Hokkei
北渓
InscriptionsPoem by Hyakkakai Umetatsu: Fune dashite/ kazemachigusa no/ niou koro/ muyai ni hikeru/ hatsugasumi kana

Poem by Renkidô Kazumasu: Tatsu haru mo/ fune mo arata na/ ryôgoku no/ hashira goyomi ni/ mitaru norizome

Poem by Kansadô Umekazu: Mikazuki no/ kasumi o kuguru/ kage to min/ hashima kogi dasu/ haru no hatsufune

百花魁梅竜
舟出して風まち草の匂ふころ むやひにひけるはつ霞かな

 連き堂員益
たつ春も 舟もあらたな 両国の はしら 暦に見たる のりそめ

 間左堂梅員
三日月の 霞をくゝる 影と見む はしま漕 出す春の はつふね
ProvenanceJanuary 1900, purchased at the Brinkley-Condor Sale by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: January 9, 1900)