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Komagata-dô Temple (R) and Onmaya Embankment (Onmaya-gashi, L), from the series A Set of Horses (Uma tsukushi)


「馬尽 駒形堂」 「馬尽 御厩川岸」
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
1822 (Bunsei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban diptych; 21.2 x 36.8 cm (8 3/8 x 14 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.10240-1
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Hokusai (2013), #128; Forrer, Surimono (2013), #262; TNM, Hokusai (2005), #s 424-6; Rijksmuseum, Surimono: Poetry and Image (2000), #s 49-51; Rijksmuseum cat. III, Hokusai and His School (1982), #s 55-56
DescriptionDiptych (two right sheets of incomplete triptych): 21.10240 (left), 21.10241 (right)

MFA impressions: 21.10240-1 (two right sheets only), 54.259-61 (complete triptych)

Translations of one poem on each sheet in Rijksmuseum 2000, pp. 92-3.
Signed Fusenkyo Iitsu hitsu (on each sheet)
不染居為一筆
Inscriptions(駒形堂)
「鶯のうた三味せんの棹さして てうしよく乗る駒形のふね 松双舎 千代住」
「遠目かね霞のとけくミめくりの 花にのりゆく春の駒かた 松寿庵」
(御厠川岸)
「猿曳も乗あふてよき恵方から 御厠河岸をわたるはる風 湖面堂河南」
「鶯のすだの流れや竹町の わたしに並ふ梅の花形 松寿庵」
ProvenanceFebruary 1914, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from S. Mori; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.