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Kingfisher with Iris and Wild Pinks (Kawasemi, shaga, nadeshiko), from an untitled series known as Small Flowers


中判花鳥 「翡翠 鳶尾草 瞿麦」
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1834 (Tenpô 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25.8 x 18.7 cm (10 3/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.10221
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Clark et al, Hokusai: Beyond ... (2017), #97; TNM, Hokusai (2005), #371; San Francisco, Hokusai & Hiroshige (1998), #96; Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 227, vertical chûban #22.01
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.21696, 21.10221

Poem translated in Clark et al, Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave (2017), p. 181.
Signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu
前北斎為一筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
InscriptionsChinese poem by Cai Yong (132-192)
「回顧生碧色 動揺揚縹青 蔡邕」
ProvenanceFormerly in the Sumitomo collection; June 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Yamanaka & Co.; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.