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Moon (Tsuki): Night Party with Cormorant Fishing (Ukai no yoru yûen), from the series Modern Genji (Imayô Genji no uchi)


「今様源氏之内 月 鵜かひの夜遊宴」
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Jôshûya Jûzô / Jûbei (Kinjûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36.5 × 50.7 cm (14 3/8 × 19 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession Number00.853-4
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks et al, Genji's World (2012), list #G053 (no photo)
DescriptionDiptych (two sheets of incomplete triptych): 00.853 (right), 00.854 (left)
Signed Kunichika ga, in toshidama cartouche (on right sheet), Kachôrô Kunichika ga, in toshidama cartouche (on left sheet)
国周画(年玉枠)
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Snake 3
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、巳三
彫師:なし
ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 05, 1900)