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「水滸五行 火 宋江明」
Fire: Song Jiangming (Ka, Sôkômei), from the series Shuihuzhuan Heroes for the Five Elements (Suiko gogyô)
「水滸五行 火 宋江明」
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Japanese
Edo period
early 1830s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Shikishiban; 21 x 18 cm (8 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20583
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ohki w/ Haliburton, Private World of Surimono (2020), checklist #122; Forrer, Surimono (2013), #327; Carpenter et al, Reading Surimono (2008), #122; Rijksmuseum cat. III, Hokusai and His School (1982), #195; Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 145
DescriptionPoems translated in Carpenter et al 2008, p. 246.
Signed
Go Hokkei
呉北渓
呉北渓
InscriptionsPoem by Kyôkyôen Umekado: Harukaze ni/ Kaori oshimade/ Yari ume no/ hoshi to kirameku/ hana no konokami
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.