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The Bunka Era (Bunka no koro), from the series Floral Patterns (Hana moyô)


「花模様 文化ノ頃」
Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japanese, 1847–1915)
Publisher: Kokkeidô
Japanese
Meiji era
1896 (Meiji 29), April

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37 × 73.7 cm (14 9/16 × 29 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Anne Gordon Keidel Trust of June 2016
Accession Number2016.945a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 201-4861 (R), 201-4862 (C), 201-4863 (L)
DescriptionNo date on this impression. The impression in the British Museum has a date of April 1896 and was published by Takekawa Seikichi; it may be the first edition. The Waseda impression is the same edition as this one (pub. Kokkeidô).
The Bunka era was the period from 1804 to 1818.
Signed Kiyochika
清親
ProvenanceAnne Gordon Keidel (d. 2016), West Newton, MA; 2016, bequest of Anne Gordon Keidel to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 9, 2016)