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Ch. 26, Tokonatsu, from the series The Color Print Contest of a Modern Genji (Ima Genji nishiki-e awase)


今源氏錦絵合 「床夏 二十六」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5), intercalary 2nd month
Object Place: Japan

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25.7 x 18 cm (10 1/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Messrs. Kanakogi, Mitsutani, and Kawai
Accession Number01.5687
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks et al, Genji's World (2012), list #G325-26 (no photo)
DescriptionMFA impressions:
Without number: 11.20896, 11.20912
With number: 11.20839, 11.20908
With number in circle: 01.5687, 2011.975.26, 2019.1977.41 (Iseya ed.)
Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche
豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks Censors' seals: Fuku, Muramatsu, Rat intercalary
No blockcutter's mark
改印:福、村松、子閏
彫師:なし
Inscriptions「なつかしき野へのとこなつうちなひき我に旅寐をすゝめ顔なり 壺汲園道政」