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Shunpudo Noshiro Ryuko, block carver

Chrysanthemums and butterflies (Kiku to botan), 1789

Description

Maker

  • Kitao Masayoshi, 1764-1824, Japanese
  • Keisai Eisen, 1790-1848, Japanese
  • Matsumoto Zenbei, Japanese, publisher
  • Shunpudo Noshiro Ryuko, Japanese, block carver

Title

Chrysanthemums and butterflies (Kiku to botan)

Year

1789

Medium

Polychrome woodblock print with embossing

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • color,
  • ink

Techniques

  • embossing

Supports

  • paper

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

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

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.

Feathers, Flowers, Talons and Fangs

February 2 - June 10, 2007

Of Clover and Chrysanthemums

September 15 - December 10, 1995

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Chrysanthemums and butterflies (Kiku to botan) with the accession number of 34.537. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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