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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)

The Broom Tree (Hahakigi), 1857, 11th month

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Description

Maker

Title

The Broom Tree (Hahakigi)

Year

1857, 11th month

Medium

Left side of a polychrome woodblock-printed diptych with embossing and metallic pigments

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Techniques

Supports

Dimensions

Vertical ōban: 37.2 x 25.6 cm (14 5/8 x 10 1/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription verso, bottom left in pencil: 10/Toyokuni; in a later hand, verso, bottom center: ICB47 y#1951

Place

Japan; Tokyo

Type

Credit

Bequest of Isaac C. Bates

Object Number

13.1410

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Poets, Heroes, and Courtiers

September 6 - December 1, 2002

Prince Genji is the hero of the great early eleventh-century Japanese novel of courtly life, The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari), written by Lady Murasaki Shikibu. From the late 1820s on, Kunisada designed variations of the Genji theme based upon an extensively reworked version of the text called “the rustic Genji.” This print is probably a later impression of a series that Kunisada designed toward the end of his life.

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