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唐美人に蝶々
Chinese Woman and Butterflies
唐美人に蝶々
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Japanese
Edo period
about late 1820s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Shikishiban; 21.2 x 18.7 cm (8 3/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession Number37.339
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Heiteres treiben... (Köln, 1990), #2-16; Chiba Museum, Edo no surimono (1997), #289 (image on right); Izzard, Kunisada's World (1993), #44
DescriptionPossibly Yang Guifei.
いろとれる霞にこてふ羽ねうち来て ひときハ梅の香をこほしけり 森林亭木守
折まよふおりから蝶のたはれ来て 此花と目もとまる梅が枝 森睟亭馬伎
いろとれる霞にこてふ羽ねうち来て ひときハ梅の香をこほしけり 森林亭木守
折まよふおりから蝶のたはれ来て 此花と目もとまる梅が枝 森睟亭馬伎
Signed
Gototei Kunisada ga
五渡亭国貞画
五渡亭国貞画
InscriptionsPoems by Shinrintei Komori and ?
ProvenanceReceived in exchange with Fogg for 17.1454