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Snail and Poem by Buson from the series Postcards of Haikai Poetry (Haikai ehagaki)


「蝸牛やその角文字のにじりがき 蕪村」 俳諧絵葉書 夏の部より
Saitô Shôshû (Japanese, born in 1870)
Publisher: Japanese Postcard Association (Nihon hagaki kai)
Distributed by: Hakubunkan
Japanese
Late Meiji era
Place of Creation: Japan

Medium/Technique Color lithograph; embossing; ink and metallic pigment on card stock
Dimensions Overall: 8.8 x 13.8 cm (3 7/16 x 5 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Leonard A. Lauder Collection of Japanese Postcards
Accession Number2002.1092
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPostcards

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, The Art of the Japanese Postcard (2004), cat. #102
Inscriptions「蝸牛やその角文字のにじりがき 蕪村」 俳諧絵葉書 夏の部より dede mushi ya sono tsuno moji no nijirigaki (With his horns / a snail slowly scrawls / a hesitant letter”)
ProvenanceEx. Jaeger Collection

Leonard A. Lauder Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fractional gift of Lauder (Accession date: March 20, 2002).