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A Picture by Hishikawa Moronobu: Woman with a Set of Poem Cards

mid 1820s

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋 北渓

(Japanese, 1780–1850)

Japan, Edo period

(1615-1868)

Color woodblock print (surimono) with gold, silver, and embossing

Sheet: 21 x 18.4 cm (8 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.)

The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.324

Location

not on view

Description

The poem by Ganjotei Shirataka reads: Friendly, amid the starry forest of the plum branches the voice of the warbler singing of the sun and moon.

Inscriptions

Inscription

Signature: Hokkei mo Artist Seal: Fusenkyo

Provenance
A. Hugh Fisher
?-1985
The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899-1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1985-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
“Checklist of the Kelvin Smith Bequest.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 75, no. 7, 1988, pp. 292–295. Mentioned: p. 292 www.jstor.org
Exhibition history

A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14-November 13, 1988).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1985.324