Image
Description
Maker
- Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川 国芳, 1798-1861, Japanese
- Omiya Kyusuke, Japanese, publisher
- Ochiai Yoshiiku, 1833-1904, Japanese
- Horiko Sataro, Japanese, block carver
Title
Fuji-bakama, Chapter 30 from the Tale of Genji: The manservant Ranpei (Fuji-bakama; Yakko Ranpei)
Year
1864.4
Medium
Polychrome woodblock print
Materials/Techniques
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Techniques
Supports
Dimensions
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Plate: 35.2 x 20.3 cm (13 7/8 x 8 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
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[text and poems]
poem in title cartouche:
Onaji no no/tsuyu ni yatsururu/fujibakama/aware wa kakeyo/kagoto bakarimoHere is thoroughwort [fujibakama] laden with the very dews that soak your own field-O have pity on me, then, if only just to be kind
(Murasaki Shikibu, trans. Royall Tyler, The Tale of Genji (New York: Viking Penguin, 2001), p. 513) Place
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Japan; Tokyo
Type
Credit
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Gift of Paula and Leonard Granoff
Object Number
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85.197.6
Exhibition History
Exhibition History
Use
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