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Hibariyama, from the series One Hundred Nô Plays (Nôgaku hyakuban)


「能楽百番 雲雀山」
Tsukioka Kôgyo (Japanese, 1869–1927)
Publisher: Matsuki Heikichi (Daikokuya) (Japanese)
Japanese
Taishô era
1925 (Taishô 14), December

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.1 x 25.4 cm (15 x 10 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Sue Cassidy Clark in honor of Sarah E. Thompson
Accession Number2011.1696
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Schaap & Rimer, Beauty of Silence (2010), #61 (complete diptych), and Appendix 2, #s 92-93
DescriptionLeft half of incomplete diptych, with signature on right sheet.

The 120 prints in this series were sold in envelopes of three sheets each, issued monthly from July 1922 to 1926 (with a gap of about a year following the disastrous earthquake of September 1923).
Signed Unsigned
無款
ProvenanceFebruary, 2002, purchased from the Hara Shobo store, Tokyo, by Sue Cassidy Clark, New York; 2011, gift of Sue Cassidy Clark to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 21, 2011)