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Kubo Shunman

Iris and peonies (Botan kakitsubata)

Description

Maker

After Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757-1820)

Title

Iris and peonies (Botan kakitsubata)
from the series Plants for the Kasumi Circle (Kasumi ren sōmoku awase)

Period

Meiji

Year

1890s

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

ink and color

Supports

Geography

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Dimensions

Shikishiban: 20.9 x 18.3 cm (8 1/4 x 7 3/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Poems are transcribed and translated in Keyes, Roger 1985, The Art of Surimono: Privately Published Japanese Woodblock Prints and Books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (1941), 366.

Seals: Artist's seal | Shunman

Inscription: [text and poems] See Roger Keyes, Surimono…Chester Beatty, 323.

Inscription: Brown, rectangular stamp in a foreign language [German?]
Inscription verso, bottom left: [Illegible]

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.353

Type

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Japanese Print Collection
May 13, 2016 – Dec 04, 2016
Summer Brilliance
Jun 14, 1996 – Sep 15, 1996

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Tombstone

After Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757-1820)
Iris and peonies (Botan kakitsubata); from the series Plants for the Kasumi Circle (Kasumi ren sōmoku awase), 1890s
Polychrome woodblock print with embossing and metallic embellishments
Shikishiban: 20.9 x 18.3 cm (8 1/4 x 7 3/16 inches)
Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 34.353

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