Ōban gold coin and mameita-gin silver "bean coin"
Watanabe Kazan, Ōban gold coin and mameita-gin silver "bean coin", 1822, year of the horse, color woodblock print with metallic pigments and embossing on paper; shikishiban surimono, The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection, public domain, 32.713
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- Title
Ōban gold coin and mameita-gin silver "bean coin"
- Related Titles
original language; descriptive: 大判に豆板銀
- Artist
- Date
1822, year of the horse
- Period
Japan: Edo period (1615-1868)
- Medium
color woodblock print with metallic pigments and embossing on paper; shikishiban surimono
- Catalogue Raisonné
Graybill 2011, cat. 89
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image/sheet: 8 in x 7 1/16 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
inscription: , printed in black on peony-patterned ground, upper middle Transliteration (Translation): Kyōkadō // Hatsuyume ni Michinoku-dachi no // koma nabete kogane hana saku // yama ni asoberi (In the year’s first dream, colts from Michinoku gambol and frolic together in the mountains where golden flowers bloom [by] Kyōkadō) Language: Japanese Description: Poem by Kyōkadō (Yomo no Magao). Translation from Graybill 2011.
inscription: , printed in black on peony-patterned ground, upper right Transliteration (Translation): Gurendō Nakakubo // Ohiroma mo niwa mo kasumi no // tachi badai // haru to hirō no uguisu no koe (In the reception room and garden as mist rolls in, the year’s “horse payments” for this spring are announced by the warbler’s song [by] Gurendō Nakakubo) Language: Japanese Description: Poem by Gurendō Nakakubo. Translation from Graybill 2011.
artist's seal: 崋山, printed in red relief within a fundō (copper counterweight) shaped seal, lower right Transliteration: Kazan 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
32.713
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
- Exhibitions
2011 The Artist's Touch, The Craftsman's Hand: Three Centuries of Japanese Prints from the Portland Art Museum Portland Art Museum
