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Shunpudo Noshiro Ryuko, block carver

Chrysanthemums and butterflies (Kiku to botan), 1789

Description

Maker

Title

Chrysanthemums and butterflies (Kiku to botan)

Year

1789

Medium

Polychrome woodblock print with embossing

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Techniques

Supports

Dimensions

Sheet: 21.8 x 37.9 cm (8 9/16 x 14 15/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription at left.
[text and poems]
poems by Toyosawa Kokosai

Place

Japan; Tokyo

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.537

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Of Clover and Chrysanthemum

September 1 - December 12, 2010

Chrysanthemums are a subject borrowed from China, where they became popular through the poetry of Tao Qian (365-427). In both China and Japan, the celebration of the Chrysanthemum Festival on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, which in this year, 2010, falls on October 16th (according to the Gregorian calendar used internationally today), called for the drinking of chrysanthemum wine to achieve long life.

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