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Ochiai Yoshiiku

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

Description

Maker

Title

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

Year

Edo (Japanese period)

Medium

ink, color

Materials/Techniques

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

Place

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Type

Credit

Gift of Paula and Leonard Granoff

Object Number

85.197.6

About

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

[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

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Use

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