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Bullfinch and Weeping Cherry (Uso, shidarezakura), from an untitled series known as Small Flowers


中判花鳥 「鷽(うそ) 垂桜(しだれざくら)」
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1834 (Tenpô 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25.5 x 18.7 cm (10 1/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.10229
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Clark et al, Hokusai: Beyond ... (2017), #91; TNM, Hokusai (2005), #367; San Francisco, Hokusai & Hiroshige (1998), #93; Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 227, vertical chûban #22.04
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.23022, 21.10229

Poem translated in San Francisco 1998, p. 146; and in Clark et al, Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave (2017), p. 174.
Signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu
前北斎為一筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
InscriptionsHaikai poem by the shamisen master Sugano Joyu II (1784-1841), poetry name Senraian Setsuman: Tori hitotsu/ nurete dekeri/ asa sakura

「鳥ひとつ 濡て出けり 朝さくら 雪万」(千来庵雪万=二代目菅野序遊)
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.