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三味線を持つ美人
Seated Woman with Shamisen and Libretto
三味線を持つ美人
Yanagawa Shigenobu I (Japanese, 1787–1832)
Japanese
Edo period
1820s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
21.1 x 37 cm (8 5/16 x 14 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Asiatic Curator's Fund
Accession Number55.75
OUT ON LOAN
On display at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025
On display at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Keyes, Art of Surimono (Chester Beatty cat., 1985), vol. 2, #269 (Group A copy); Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 353
DescriptionPoems translated in Keyes 1985, vol. 2, p. 314.
Signed
Edo Yanagawa Shigenobu
江戸柳川重信
江戸柳川重信
InscriptionsPoems in 7-5-7 meter (shichigo chô)
Poem by Mitsukado:
Kaeseshi ato ni/ musuboreshi/ nemidaregami no/ tokekamuru/ kokoro kumoreba/ makaitaru/ awasekagami o/ miru ni tsuke/ utsuru was nushi no/ ushirokage
Poem by Hamanari:
Wakare no kago no/ ashi hayaku/ miokuru ato no/ kurushisa wa/ omoi tomaranu/ ikitsue no/ doko e kokoro no/ oroso yara
Poem by Mitsukado:
Kaeseshi ato ni/ musuboreshi/ nemidaregami no/ tokekamuru/ kokoro kumoreba/ makaitaru/ awasekagami o/ miru ni tsuke/ utsuru was nushi no/ ushirokage
Poem by Hamanari:
Wakare no kago no/ ashi hayaku/ miokuru ato no/ kurushisa wa/ omoi tomaranu/ ikitsue no/ doko e kokoro no/ oroso yara
Provenance1955, purchased by the MFA from an unidentified source. (Accession date: March 10, 1955)