Summer, No. 1: Poppies and Common Moorhen (Keshi [two spellings], ban, natsu ichi), from the series Bairei's Picture Album of Birds and Flowers (Bairei kachô gafu)

「楳嶺花鳥画譜　罌子粟（けし）俗介之　鷭（ばん）方目　夏一」

Kôno Bairei (Japanese, 1844–1895)
Publisher: Yorozuya Magobei (Ôkura Magobei, Kin'eidô) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Umezawa Minokichi (Japanese)

Japanese

Meiji era

1883 (Meiji 16), December 27

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.5 × 24 cm (14 3/8 × 9 7/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of the Anne Gordon Keidel Trust of June 2016

Accession Number2016.1466

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Signed Kôno Yutaka (with address, in lower border)
幸野豊

Marks Blockcutter's mark: Horikô Umezawa Minokichi (in right border)
Artist's seal: Bairei

ProvenanceApril 4, 2009, sold by Arts and Design of Japan, San Francisco, CA, to Anne Gordon Keidel (d. 2016), West Newton, MA; 2016, bequest of Anne Gordon Keidel to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 9, 2016)