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Flowers: Woman with Mirror, from the series Flowers and Birds, Wind and Moon (Kachô fûgetsu)


「花鳥風月」 花、鏡台と美人
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1824 (Bunsei 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 21 x 18.6 cm (8 1/4 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line General Funds
Accession Number00.1939
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Edo engei hana zukushi (2009), #55; Carpenter et al, Reading Surimono (2008), #195; Egoyomi et surimono (Werner Schindler Bienne Coll. Cat., 1983), cat. no. 82
DescriptionPoem translated in Carpenter et al 2008, p. 313.
Signed Gototei Kunisada ga
五渡亭国貞画
InscriptionsPoem by Ryûôtei no Hananari: Hono niou/ hana ni kokoro mo/ midare-gami/ yû ni iwarenu/ haru no akebono
「柳桜亭江戸美也 ほの匂ふ花に心もみたれ髪ゆふにいわれぬ春の曙」
ProvenanceJanuary 1900, purchased at the Brinkley-Condor Sale by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: January 9, 1900)