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Prosperity: Ding Gu (Roku, Teiko), from an untitled series of Happiness, Prosperity, and Longevity (Fukurokuju)


福禄寿 「禄 丁固」
Yashima Gakutei (Japanese, 1786?–1868)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1824 (Bunsei 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 21.5 x 19 cm (8 7/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Source unidentified
Accession Number2009.4994.7
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ohki w/ Haliburton, Private World of Surimono (2020), checklist #99; Keyes, Art of Surimono (Chester Beatty cat., 1985), vol. 1, #72; Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 73
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.19871, 2009.4994.7

The complete set: 00.1930, 11.19870, 11.19871; 2009.4994.6-8

Poems translated in Keyes 1985, vol. 1, pp. 107-8; and Polster & Marks 1980, p. 69.

From a partially disassembled album, 2009.4994.1-.10
Signed Zugi Gakutei
図技岳亭
InscriptionsPoem by Rokujuen Motoari: Shakuroku mo/ takaki ni nobori/ saru no toshi/ miruya chôko ga/ matsu no hatsu yume
爵録もたかきに のほるさるの とし みるや丁固か まつの はつ夢