Shingoken hômon (A Visit to Shingoken's Cottage) (right half)
Kitagawa Utamaro, Shingoken hômon (A Visiting Shingoken's Cottage) (left half), 1788/1789, color woodblock print with embossing on paper; ōban nishiki-e; diptych, The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection, public domain, 32.291
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- Title
Shingoken hômon (A Visit to Shingoken's Cottage) (right half)
- Related Titles
original language: 寝語軒を訪う寄々羅金鶏
- Artist
- Related People
publisher: Tsutaya Jūzaburō (Japanese, active 1774-4th month 1852)
- Date
1788-1789
- Period
Japan: Edo period (1615-1868)
- Medium
color woodblock print with embossing on paper; ōban nishiki-e; diptych
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 14 11/16 in x 9 7/8 in; sheet: 15 in x 9 7/8 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
publisher's mark: [three mountains with paulownia leaf], printed in black ink, right sheet: lower right, within block; left sheet: lower left, within block Description: mark of the publisher Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô)
signature: 哥麿画, printed in black ink, right sheet: center bottom, within block; left sheet: center right, within block Transliteration (Translation): Utamaro ga (picture by Utamaro) Language: Japanese
inscription: にほの浦の隠士寝語の美燐 とし月俳優の作を好ミ かたわら夷曲の間にあそへり やつがれ行脚の頃 隣子か艸庵にいたりて 奇々羅金鶏 音にきく 近江源氏の 狂歌師に きゝら入道 見参申さん 与次兵衛に あらねと我も 鳥がなく あつま恋しき 花の友人 寝語軒美燐, printed in black ink, upper middle of diptych across both sheets Transliteration: Kikira Kinkei: Niho no ura no inshi Shingo no Birin, toshitsuki wazaogi no saku o konomi, katawara Ebisu-buri no mon ni asoberi, yatsugare angya no koro, Rinshi ga sôan no itarite. Poem, by Kikira Kinkei: Oto ni kiku/ Ômi Genji no/ kyôka-shi ni/ Kikira nyûdô/kenzan môsan. Poem, by Shingoken Birin: Yojibei ni/ aranedo ware mo/ tori ga naku/ azuma koishiki/ hana no tomobito. Language: Japanese
- Collection Area
Asian Art; Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
Japanese Traditional Prints
- Object Type
relief print
- Culture
Japanese
- Credit Line
The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection
- Accession Number
32.292
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
- Exhibitions
2005 Crowd Appeal: Impressions of Edo Japan Portland Art Museum
2011 The Artist's Touch, The Craftsman's Hand: Three Centuries of Japanese Prints from the Portland Art Museum Portland Art Museum