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五行 「つめを酉のとしはさみの金性」
Cutting One's Nails in the Year of the Chicken, Metal of the Scissors (Tsume o tori no toshi hasami no kinshô), from an untitled series of the Five Elements (Gogyô)
五行 「つめを酉のとしはさみの金性」
Japanese
Edo period
about 1818–23 (Bunsei 1–6)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 36.6 x 24.7 cm (14 7/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number17.3214.2
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), list #326.4, other prints in the series: cat. nos. 357-9; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 2, British Museum II (1988), pl. 239; TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 2 (1962), #2452
Signed
Kikukawa Eizan hitsu
菊川英山筆
菊川英山筆
Marks
Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極
改印：極