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Mount Fuji, from an untitled series of Three Lucky Dreams


初夢三番 富士
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Japanese
Edo period
1820s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 20.8 x 18.7 cm (8 3/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Dr. G. S. Amsden
Accession Number52.1406
OUT ON LOAN
On display at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 12, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin (1988), pl. 163; Hillier, Vever cat. 3 (1976), #763
Signed Hokkei
北渓
InscriptionsPoems by Ryûeiko Itonaga and Seiyôkan Umeyo

柳栄子糸長

雲の上にのほる
心地てうれしきハ
空に見あへる
不二のはつ夢

青陽館梅世

ひととせのよきことふきを
まねくらし見そむる
夢の不二の扇ハ

NB
「不二の扇」の典拠は、石川丈山「富士山」にあり。白扇倒懸東海天 (はくせんさかしまにかくとうかいのてん)。
Information received from Akiko Yano, SOAS, August 16th, 2004.
Provenance1952, gift of Dr. George S. Amsden (b. 1870 - d. 1966), Acworth, NH, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 9, 1952)