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Wood: Lu Zhishen (Ki, Rochishin), from the series Suikoden and the Five Elements (Suiko gogyô)


「水滸五行 木 魯智深」
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Japanese
Edo period
early 1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, and metallic pigment on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 21.2 x 17.8 cm (8 3/8 x 7 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.9283
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné King and Iwakiri, Japanese Warrior Prints (2007), #115 (orig. and copies); McKee, Japanese Poetry Prints (Schoff Coll. cat., 2006), #57; Mirviss w/ Carpenter, Jewels of Japanese Printmaking (2000), #55; Chiba Museum, Edo no surimono (1997), #248
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.20591, 21.9283

Spring kyôka surimono for the Hanazono Group.
Poem translated in King and Iwakiri, Japanese Warrior Prints (2007), p. 214; McKee 2006, p. 161; and Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 201; Spanish translation in Alcains & Tomita, Felicitationes Japonesas (2020), p. 80.
Signed Go Hokkei
呉北渓
InscriptionsPoem by Ryûtoen Baikai: Kaoshô ga/ hikinuku ude no/ kobu yanagi/ kaze no chikara mo/ oyobazarikeri
花和尚か 引ぬく腕の 瘤柳 風のちからも 及ハさりけり  竜都園梅海