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「江戸むらさき名所源氏 見立梅が枝」
Parody of the Umegae Chapter: Plum Garden at Kameido (Mitate Umegae, Kameido umeyashiki), from the series Famous Places in Edo and Murasaki's Genji (Edo Murasaki meisho Genji)
「江戸むらさき名所源氏 見立梅が枝」
Japanese
Edo period
1843–47 (Tenpô 14–Kôka 4)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 33.5 x 22.6 cm (13 3/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich
Accession Number47.23
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
A young lady visiting the plum garden at Kameido takes a break at a tea stall in the garden where comfortable matted benches are provided for customers. She daintily licks her brush to a point as she prepares to write something, while in the distance, other sightseers admire the writhing shape of the Sleeping Dragon Plum Tree. This contemporary scene is jokingly compared to “A Branch of Plum“ (Umegae), Chapter 32 of The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki, the greatest work of classical Japanese literature.
Catalogue Raisonné
Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 253, ôban #6.1; the series: Marks et al., Genji's World (2012), list #G110 (no photos)
Signed
Hiroshige ga
広重画
広重画
Marks
Censor's seal: Hama
No blockcutter's mark
改印：浜
彫師：なし
No blockcutter's mark
改印：浜
彫師：なし
Provenance1947, gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich to the MFA. (Accession date: January 9, 1947)