Image

RISDM 34-353.tif

Kubo Shunman

Iris and peonies (Botan kakitsubata), Meiji

Description

Maker

Title

Iris and peonies (Botan kakitsubata)

Year

Meiji

Medium

ink and color

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Shikishiban: 20.9 x 18.3 cm (8 1/4 x 7 3/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Poems are transcribed and translated in Keyes, Roger 1985, The Art of Surimono: Privately Published Japanese Woodblock Prints and Books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (1941), 366.

Seals: Artist's seal | Shunman

Inscription: [text and poems] See Roger Keyes, Surimono…Chester Beatty, 323.

Inscription: Brown, rectangular stamp in a foreign language [German?]
Inscription verso, bottom left: [Illegible]

Place

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.353

About

Iris and peonies (Botan kakitsubata)
from the series Plants for the Kasumi Circle (Kasumi ren sōmoku awase)

Poems are transcribed and translated in Keyes, Roger 1985, The Art of Surimono: Privately Published Japanese Woodblock Prints and Books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (1941), 366.

Seals: Artist's seal | Shunman

Inscription: [text and poems] See Roger Keyes, Surimono…Chester Beatty, 323.

Inscription: Brown, rectangular stamp in a foreign language [German?]
Inscription verso, bottom left: [Illegible]

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Use

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