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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

Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?-1806)

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

diptychs

Edo

Japanese woodblock prints

nishiki-e

oban

relief printing

relief prints

The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection

woodcuts

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