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Lucky New Year Dreams: Fuji, Falcon, and Eggplant


初夢見立 一富士二鷹三茄子
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1786 (Tenmei 6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 39.1 x 52.6 cm (15 3/8 x 20 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.7427-8
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #27 (no photo); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #35; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #793, pl. LXXI
DescriptionDiptych (two sheets of incomplete triptych): 21.7427 (left), 21.7428 (right)

MFA impressions: 11.13893 (left sheet), 21.7427-8 (center and right sheets)
Signed Kiyonaga ga (on each sheet)
清長画
ProvenanceSpring 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.