Descriptive Information

Title

Daimyô yashiki no Kyôden // [Santô Kyôden at a Daimyô’s mansion].

Call Number

E Row 1/GC063/Box 14/Oversize GA 2008.01151

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/47429925s

Publisher

Japan : [s.n.], n.d. [ca. 1788-1790]

Language

No linguistic content

Date Created

1788

Extent

1 item ; sheet 37.4 x 50.4 cm.

Source Acquisition

Gift of Gillett G. Griffin in honor of Dale Roylance. Given 2008.

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Notes

Medium: Nishiki-e (color woodblock print)

Format: Ôban tate-e diptych (left and center sheets of triptych).

Inscribed [poem]: Utayomi wa heta koso yokere ametsuchi no ugoki-idashite tamaru mono ka wa (When composing poems, the more inept the better. For who could stand it, if the heavens and earth were moved). -- By Yadoya no Meshimori, translated by Timothy Clark

Provenance: Purchased at one of three 1947 sales at Parke-Bernet or at Gimbels Department Store, New York City.

Signed: Utamaro ga.

Discovery Information

Subject

Japanese poetry—Illustrations

Japanese literature—Illustrations

Physical Characteristics

File Count

2

Institutional Information

Collection

Omega Project

Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/192d8789-eb89-4d52-b2bb-912638968a00/manifest

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