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Longevity: Wo Quan (Ju, Akuzen), from the series Happiness, Prosperity, and Longvity (Fukurokuju)


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

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 21.6 x 19.1 cm (8 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Source unidentified
Accession Number2009.4994.8
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Keyes, Art of Surimono (Chester Beatty cat., 1985), vol. 1, #73; Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 73
DescriptionMFA impressions: 00.1930, 2009.4994.8

The complete set: 00.1930, 11.19870, 11.19871; 2009.6-8

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 Kôjuken Shikyô: Yamabito mo/ haru tatsu sora ni/ uguisu no/ hatsune o matsu no/ mi ya sasaguran
やま人も春たつ そらに うくひすの はつねを まつの 実やさゝぐらん