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Miotsukushi, from an untitled series of The Tale of Genji


源氏物語 澪標
Japanese
Edo period
about 1836–37 (Tenpô 7–8)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, and metallic pigment on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 20.8 x 18.2 cm (8 3/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.9268
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Goodall, Living for the Moment (Bowman Coll. exh. cat., 2015), p. 121; Mirviss w/ Carpenter, Jewels of Japanese Printmaking (2000), #122; Heiteres treiben... (Köln, 1990), #2-80
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.19814, 21.9268
Another print in the series (Hahakigi): 11.25447

Poems translated in Goodall 2015, p. 120.
Other prints in the series: Ohki w/ Haliburton, Private World of Surimono (2020), checklist #71 (Fujibakama; attr. Takashima Chiharu, 1780-1859 [sic]); Rijksmuseum, Surimono: Poetry and Image (2000), #93 (Wakamurasaki); Keyes, Surimono (Spencer Museum cat., 1984), cat. no. 268 (Eawase).
Signed Unsigned
無款
InscriptionsPoem by Rokujuan Fukumaro: Akashi made mo/ kasumi no umi ni/ mioshirushi/ tateru naniwa no/ eni ha fukashi na
Poem by Kichôdô: Uguisu no/ mefu hanagasa yo/ harusame no/ tamino no shima no/ nani hagakure su
明石まても 霞の海に ミをしるし たてるなにはの えにハふかしな  鹿寿庵ふく麿
鶯のめふはな笠よはる雨の 田蓑の嶋の なにはがくれす  _長堂