Image

Suien

Persimmons (Kaki)

Description

Maker

Suien (Japanese)

Title

Persimmons (Kaki)

Period

Taisho

Year

1919.5

Medium

polychrome woodblock print

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Polychrome woodblock print

Materials

ink, color

Supports

paper

Geography

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Dimensions

Sheet: 18.7 x 17.9 cm (7 3/8 x 7 1/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription at left and right.
[text and poems]
The inscription is not a poem but a sentence memorializing a person who had died the preceding autumn on the anniversary of his death. The inscription is not signed.

Signature: Suiensai

Seals: Artist' seal | illegible

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.629

Type

Prints

Exhibition History

Small Pleasures

Surimono from the Nineteenth Century

Mar 15, 1991 – Apr 28, 1991

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This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Suien (Japanese)

Persimmons (Kaki), 1919.5

Polychrome woodblock print

Sheet: 18.7 x 17.9 cm (7 3/8 x 7 1/16 inches)

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 34.629

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