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Yoshino, from the series A Set of Three Courtesans (Yûkun sanban tsuzuki)


「遊君三番続 吉野」
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, and metallic pigment on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 21 x 18 cm (8 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.9270
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné McKee, Colored in the Year's New Light (Becker coll. exh. ca., 2008), #126; Mirviss, The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Surimono (1995), no. 132; Egoyomi et surimono (Werner Schindler Bienne Coll. Cat., 1983), cat. no. 96
DescriptionPoem by Ryôjôen Umeyasu of Hino, Gôshû

Poem translated in McKee 2008, p. 252.
Signed Hokkei
北渓
InscriptionsPoem by Ryûjôen Umeyasu of Hino in Goshû: Hana no e wa/ monokawa kitte/ Kure-hatori/ aya ni mo masaru/ Yoshino Kanton
ProvenanceAcquired by William S. and John T. Spaulding from L. E. Charnley; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.