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Blue (Aoi), from the series Five Colors (Goshiki no uchi)


「五色の内 青」
Ryûryûkyo Shinsai (Japanese, 1764?–1820)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1820 (Bunsei 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 21 x 18.5 cm (8 1/4 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Louis W. Black
Accession Number51.37
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Keyes, Art of Surimono (Chester Beatty cat., 1985), vol. 2, #299; another print in the series (Yellow): McKee 2008, #121
DescriptionPoem translated in Keyes 1985, vol. 2, p. 346.
Signed Shinsai
辰斎
InscriptionsPoem by Ekinsha Kohagi: Ningyô yori/ tsukau sugata no/ ugomeku wa/ koshi no yanagi no/ ito ya hikuran
Provenance1951, gift of Louis W. Black to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 11, 1951)