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Yosa Buson

Rock ptarmigans and pine (Matsu ni raicho)

Description

Maker

Yosa Buson (Japanese)
Iwataya Kisaburo (Japanese), publisher

Title

Rock ptarmigans and pine (Matsu ni raicho)

Period

Edo (Japanese period)

Year

1810s

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

ink, color

Supports

Geography

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Dimensions

Sheet: 34.1 x 22.2 cm (13 7/16 x 8 3/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription above and below.
[text and poems]
Shirayama no/matsu no kokage ni/kakuroi te/yasura ni sumeru/rai no tori kana
On Mount Shirayama grouse live peacefully in the shadows of the pines

Poem by retired Emperor Gotoba
The mountain is close to Shirayama Shrine. Grouse (or rock ptarmigan) are white in winter, brown in summer. Shirayama means "white (shira) mountain (yama)" which may also allude to their winter white feathers.

Signature: Katsukawa Shunsei ga

Seals: Censor's seal | kiwame

Identification

Edition

An earlier edition without color and with censor's seal and signature of 34.448.2.

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.448.1

Type

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Black on White
Monochromatic Japanese Prints
Dec 08, 2000 – Mar 04, 2001

Label copy

This print was probably made in the second decade of the nineteenth century, based on the evidence of its censor’s seals. The color-printed version to the right, which appears to have been made soon after the monochrome print, points to the possibility that prints sometimes were produced in both monochrome and polychrome versions.

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Tombstone

Yosa Buson (Japanese)
Iwataya Kisaburo (Japanese), publisher
Rock ptarmigans and pine (Matsu ni raicho), 1810s
Monochrome woodblock print
Sheet: 34.1 x 22.2 cm (13 7/16 x 8 3/4 inches)
Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 34.448.1

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