Ochiai Yoshiiku

Fuji-bakama, Chapter 30 from the Tale of Genji: The manservant Ranpei (Fuji-bakama; Yakko Ranpei)

Maker

Ochiai Yoshiiku (Japanese, 1833-1904)
Omiya Kyusuke (Japanese), publisher
Horiko Sataro (Japanese), block carver

Title

Fuji-bakama, Chapter 30 from the Tale of Genji: The manservant Ranpei (Fuji-bakama; Yakko Ranpei)
Modern-style imitations of Genji
Imayo nazaroe Genji

Period

Edo (Japanese period)

Year

1864.4

Medium

polychrome woodblock print

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Polychrome woodblock print

Materials

ink, color

Supports

paper

Geography

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Dimensions

Plate: 35.2 x 20.3 cm (13 7/8 x 8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

[text and poems]
poem in title cartouche:
Onaji no no/tsuyu ni yatsururu/fujibakama/aware wa kakeyo/kagoto bakarimo

Here 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)

Signature: Signed in the block, LL | Ikkeisai Yoshiiku ga

Seals: Artist's paulownia seal; engraver's seal | Horiko (carver) Sataro; censor's seal | aratame; date seal

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Paula and Leonard Granoff

Object Number

85.197.6

Type

Prints

Exhibition History

Legends of the Samurai

Oct 01, 1993

Meiji Period Prints from the Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Granoff

Nov 01, 1989 – Jan 31, 1990

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Tombstone

Ochiai Yoshiiku (Japanese, 1833-1904)
Omiya Kyusuke (Japanese), publisher
Horiko Sataro (Japanese), block carver

Fuji-bakama, Chapter 30 from the Tale of Genji: The manservant Ranpei (Fuji-bakama; Yakko Ranpei); Modern-style imitations of Genji; Imayo nazaroe Genji, 1864.4

Polychrome woodblock print

Plate: 35.2 x 20.3 cm (13 7/8 x 8 inches)

Gift of Paula and Leonard Granoff 85.197.6

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