In the Year of the Earth Horse, on the 8th Day of the 5th Month, People Born in Earth and Water Signs Enter a Lucky Cycle (Tsuchinoe uma no toshi gogatsu yôka dosuisei no hito uke ni iru): Fukusuke and Fukurokuju Knock Heads While Bowing

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In the Year of the Earth Horse, on the 8th Day of the 5th Month, People Born in Earth and Water Signs Enter a Lucky Cycle (Tsuchinoe uma no toshi gogatsu yôka dosuisei no hito uke ni iru): Fukusuke and Fukurokuju Knock Heads While Bowing

「戊午歳五月八日　土水性の人うけに入」　福助と福禄寿の挨拶

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Kiya Sôjirô (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1858 (Ansei 5), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.1 × 24.7 cm (14 3/16 × 9 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection

Accession Number08.543.59

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ôta Mem. Mus., Warau ukiyo-e (2013), #167 (1861 edition); Shibuya Kuritsu Shôtô Bijutsukan, Ukiyoeshitachi no shinbutsu (1999), #158; Inagaki and Isao, Kuniyoshi no kyôga (1991), #156 (1861 edition)

DescriptionAccording to yin-yang divination (onmyôdô), luck followed a cycle of seven good years and then five bad years, according to one's year of birth. The ages of people in each category are listed.

Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画

Marks Censor's seal: Horse 4
No blockcutter's mark
改印：午四
彫師：なし

ProvenanceBy date unknown, Alfred Greenough Collection, Boston, MA; 1884, by inheritance to his uncle, Charles H. Parker, Milton, MA; 1908, bequest of Charles H. Parker to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 13, 2009)