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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.1376
People
Kubo Shunman 窪俊満, Japanese (Edo 1757 - 1820)
Title
Butterflies and Moths, from the series An Illustrated Collection of Butterflies for the Kasumi Group (Kasumi-ren gunchō gafu)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
surimono, print
Date
Edo period, circa late Bunka Era (1804-1818)
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/208148

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, and metallic pigments on paper
Dimensions
Shikishiban: H. 19.5 cm x W. 17.6 cm (7 11/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Shō Shunman sei

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.4.1376
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Poems by Yūyūtei Kinojiryo and associates.

Publication History

  • Theodore Robert Bowie and James T. Kenney, Art of the Surimono, exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum (Bloomington, IN, 1979), Cat. No. 001 / pp. 8-9
  • Edythe Polster and Alfred H. Marks, Surimono: Prints by Elbow, Lovejoy Press (Washington D.C., 1980), p. 409

Verification Level

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