Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Number Five: Dancers on stage.
Call Number
E Row 1/GC063/Box 05/Normal/Gillett Griffin Gift GA 2008.01182
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/xp68kg32q
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d. [ca. 1822]
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1822
Extent
1 item ; sheet 20.8 x 18.3 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Gillett G. Griffin in honor of Dale Roylance. Given 2008.
References
Roger S. Keyes, The Art of Surimono (New York: Harper and Row, 1985), plate 48, p. 90.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Nishiki-e (color woodblock print), Surimono
Format: Shikishiban (left sheet of five-panel print).
Inscribed [two poems]: Itozakura yanagi no ito ni ame no ito onaji teburi o misuru harukaze. (The tendrils of the cherry tree and willow, the streaks of rain, all make the same dance movements in the spring wind.) -- Seikaitei Kamendo Harusame mo yaya Furuichi no niwa tazumi narande odoru noki no tamamizu. (The spring rain runs off the roof at Furuichi; drops of water dance along the eaves like jewels.) -- Hisakataya, translated by Roger S. Keyes
Provenance: Purchased at one of three 1947 sales at Parke-Bernet or at Gimbels Department Store, New York City.
Signed: Gakutei Sadaoka hitsu.

Discovery Information

Subject
Genre painting
Dancers—Japan—In art
Japanese poetry—Illustrations
Japanese literature—Illustrations

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0874a353-d94f-4a02-aed7-1949fce6f8a4/manifest