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Kintarô Referees a Match between a Rooster and a Tengu, No. 1 from the series Mountain after Mountain (Yama ato yama)


「山後山 其一」 金太郎
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 21 x 18 cm (8 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number11.1917
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Carpenter et al, Reading Surimono (2008), #132 (repro.); Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 139
DescriptionPoem translated in Carpenter et al 2008, p. 255; and Polster & Marks 1980, p. 134.
Signed Hokkei ga
北渓画
Marks Blockcutter: Horikô Edo Fusa
Printer: Surikô Edo Gen
Artist's seal: Hokkei
InscriptionsPoem by Seiyôkan Umeyo: Harugasumi/ hikishi gyôji no/ uchiwa yori/ kachidoki agete/ isamu niwatori

Poem by Hokueishi Sutena: Ashigara no/ yama no hatsuhi ni/ iro-akaki/ Kasumi Otoko wa/ ima mo komoreri