Utagawa Kunisada 歌川 国貞 (Toyokuni III)

The Second Month: Plum Viewing (衣更着 梅見Kisaragi umemi)

Maker

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川 国貞 (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786-1865, b. in Edo)
Tsutaya Kichizō 蔦屋吉蔵 (Japanese, c. 1830-1859, active in Edo, Japan), publisher

Title

The Second Month: Plum Viewing (衣更着 梅見Kisaragi umemi)
from the series The Twelve Months (十二月ノ内 Jūni tsuki no uchi)
Junikagetsu no uchi

Period

Edo (Japanese period)

Year

1854, 6th month (Kaei 7/ Ansei 1)

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

ink, color

Supports

Geography

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Dimensions

Vertical ōban triptych: 36.4 x 74.6 cm (14 5/16 x 29 3/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signature: Toyokuni ga

Seals: Censor's seal | aratame; date seal | 1854.6

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Marshall H. Gould

Object Number

30.039.10

Type

Exhibition History

Kunisada's Twelve Month Series
Oct 10, 2008 – Feb 01, 2009

Label copy

Flowering plum is usually associated with the first month of the year, but here Kunisada forgoes depicting the “seasonal change of clothes” described in the month’s old literary title and instead chooses to illustrate plum for the second lunar month. Here a group of women picnic in a garden surrounded by beautiful flowering plum trees.

Kunisada's Twelve Months
Images of Women in Japanese Woodblock Prints
Mar 07, 1997 – May 03, 1997
The Twelve Months at Home
Mar 27, 1992 – May 17, 1992

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Tombstone

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川 国貞 (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786-1865, b. in Edo)
Tsutaya Kichizō 蔦屋吉蔵 (Japanese, c. 1830-1859, active in Edo, Japan), publisher
The Second Month: Plum Viewing (衣更着 梅見Kisaragi umemi); from the series The Twelve Months (十二月ノ内 Jūni tsuki no uchi); Junikagetsu no uchi, 1854, 6th month (Kaei 7/ Ansei 1)
Polychrome woodblock triptych
Vertical ōban triptych: 36.4 x 74.6 cm (14 5/16 x 29 3/8 inches)
Gift of Marshall H. Gould 30.039.10

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