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Calligraphy (top), Old Man Sharpening a Sickle (bottom), from the harimaze series Handbook of Calligraphy and Painting of Recent Times (Kinsei shoga tekagami)


「近世書画手鑑」 鎌を研ぐ老人 (張交)
Miyagi Gengyo (Japanese, 1817–1880)
After: Suzuki Nanrei (Japanese, 1775–1844)
Publisher: Moriya Jihei (Kinshindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1854 (Kaei 7/Ansei 1), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban (harimaze); 37.2 x 25.5 cm (14 5/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession Number00.1465
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Gengyo sha (copied by Gengyo)
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Tiger 8
No blockcutter's mark
Artist's seal: Nanrei
改印:改、寅八
彫師:なし
ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 05, 1900)