A Good Time for a Wedding (Yometori yoshi), from the series Series for the Hanazono Group (Hanazono bantsuzuki)

「花園番続　よめとりよし」

Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1824 (Bunsei 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, and silver on paper

Dimensions Shikishiban; 20.7 x 17.9 cm (8 1/8 x 7 1/16 in.)

Credit Line General Funds

Accession Number00.1907

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Forrer, Surimono (2013), #300; Rijksmuseum cat. III, Hokusai and His School (1982), #165; Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 189

DescriptionPoems translated in Polster & Marks 1980, pp. 187-8.

Signed Hokkei
北渓

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