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Water Hyacinth (Hoteisô), from the series Plants for the Kasumi Circle (Kasumiren sômoku awase)


「霞連草木合 布袋草」
Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820)
Japanese
Edo period
mid to late 1810s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 20.7 x 18.1 cm (8 1/8 x 7 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.6194
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 409; another print in the series: Hillier, Japanese Prints and Drawings from the Vever Collection (1976), fig. 527
DescriptionFor a similar print (maybe a different state of this print), see McKee, Japanese Poetry Prints (2006), cat. no. 3. The print illustrated in McKee is a horizontal design, printed in color only without black outlines, and with different poems and seals, including a seal of Shunman; McKee dates it "ca. early 1810s."
Signed Shunman sei
俊満製