Ono no Komachi and Cherry Blossoms

小町と桜

Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)

Japanese

Edo period

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

Dimensions Shikishiban; 21 x 18.3 cm (8 1/4 x 7 3/16 in.)

Credit Line General Funds

Accession Number00.1922

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan 11, Museo d'Arte Orientale, Genoa, II (1989), fig. 50; Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 157

DescriptionPoem translated in Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 155.

Signed Hokkei
北渓

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