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Three Poems

Japanese
Edo period
17th century

Medium/Technique Hanging scroll; ink on decorated paper
Dimensions Image: 17 × 15.7 cm (6 11/16 × 6 3/16 in.)
Mounted: 136.7 × 23.5 cm (53 13/16 × 9 1/4 in.)
Overall: 138 × 27.6 × 2.3 cm (54 5/16 × 10 7/8 × 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Peggy and Richard M. Danziger
Accession Number2024.2812
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPaintings

InscriptionsMitsuhiro (lower left)
Mitsuhiro on paulownia box; Karasumaru dainagon Mitsuhiro kō sanku irogami (three poems on decorated paper on storage box lid obverse; San ku irogami\Mitsuhiro-kō on paper on lid reverse and kinbai (sale prohibited) Fuji-shi (Mr. Fuji) with red seal on lid reverse. No, 243 on end paper and Mitsuhiro kō sanku in ink. No. 50\Mitsuhiro kō\sanku waka\...aki zatsu (miscellany) with red oval seal on bottom paper, Additional inscription in ink.
Provenance1980, sold by Yanagi Takashi, Yanagi Oriental Art, Kyoto to Peggy and Richard M Danziger, New York; 2024, gift of Peggy and Richard M. Danziger to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 18, 2024)