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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
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
ProvenanceJanuary 1900, purchased at the Brinkley-Condor Sale by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: January 9, 1900)