Image

Hayami Shungyosai II

Grapes, Scissors, and Porcelain Bowl, mid-1820s

Description

Maker

Title

Grapes, Scissors, and Porcelain Bowl

Year

mid-1820s

Medium

Polychrome woodblock print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Techniques

Supports

Dimensions

Length: 21.3 cm (8 3/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Unidentified signature.

Place

Japan

Type

Credit

Gift of George Pierce Metcalf

Object Number

56.039.71

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Marking the Occasion

February 3 - May 28, 2006

This print was distributed by the Osaka poet Ōe no Kitayori on the occasion of a memorial service commemorating the anniversary of his father’s death. The authors of the poems, including the leader of the “crane” poetry group, Tsurunoya, and the block cutter, Tani Seikō, had all experienced personal losses around the time that this print was made.

Use

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