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Portrait and Actual Calligraphy of the Poet Shûshiki (Shûshiki shôzô shinseki), from a series of haikai poets


「秋色肖像真跡」
Watanabe Kazan (Japanese, 1793–1842)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1835 (Tenpô 6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.1 x 26 cm (15 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number11.2267
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Tahara Munici0al Mus., Watanabe kazxan no shinzui (2018), #102 (complete set); Genshoku ukiyo-e dai hyakka jiten 2 (1982), #69
DescriptionFrom a set of six portraits of famous poets, with examples of their calligraphy and anecdotes about them, intended to be pasted on screens; the first edition has a square seal reading "Kazan sensei zuga."
Signed (this impression unsigned)
無款
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極