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「花園番続 つめとりよし」
A Good Time to Cut Fingernails (Tsume tori yoshi), from the series Series for the Hanazono Group (Hanazono bantsuzuki)
「花園番続 つめとりよし」
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1824 (Bunsei 7)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, gold, silver, and copper on paper
Dimensions
Shikishiban; 20.7 x 17.9 cm (8 1/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
General Funds
Accession Number00.1901
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ohki w/ Haliburton, Private World of Surimono (2020), checklist #126; Forrer, Surimono (2013), #306; Rijksmuseum cat. III, Hokusai and His School (1982), #168; Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 189
DescriptionPoems translated in Polster & Marks 1980, p. 187.
Signed
Hokkei
北渓
北渓
ProvenanceJanuary 1900, purchased at the Brinkley-Condor Sale by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: January 9, 1900)