Peony, from the series Selected Stone-rubbing Pictures by Kôshisei (Kôshisei ishizuri gasen), also called Fan Series – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Peony, from the series Selected Stone-rubbing Pictures by Kôshisei (Kôshisei ishizuri gasen), also called Fan Series

Peony, from the series Selected Stone-rubbing Pictures by Kôshisei (Kôshisei ishizuri gasen), also called Fan Series

篁子生石摺画選　牡丹

Tsuchiya Rakuzan (Rakusan) (Japanese, 1896–1976)

Japanese

Shôwa era

1933–35 (Shôwa 8–10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink on paper

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25 x 38.7 cm (9 13/16 x 15 1/4 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr.

Accession Number46.409

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Rakusan.net, Gallery, Fan Series, no. 103-2

DescriptionAbout 180 designs in this series are known. The prints are in the style of rubbings taken from carved stones, but they were actually printed from woodblocks in the usual way.

Signed (seal only)

Marks Artist's seal: Sekishunro

ProvenanceBy 1946, Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (b. 1900 - d. 1965), Cambridge, MA; 1946, gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. to the MFA. (Accession date: May 9, 1946)