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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.1996
People
Harukawa Goshichi (Kamiya Hōshū), Japanese (Edo 1776 - 1831)
Title
Woman Cutting an Iris Leaf Arrow
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print, surimono
Date
mid-1820s
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/207518

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, and metallic pigments on paper
Technique
Woodblock print
Dimensions
shikishiban: H. 22 × W. 18 cm (8 11/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Signed: Harukawa Goshichi hitsu 春川五七筆
  • inscription: Poem by Ōe Nagasumi (upper right): mononofu no/ iwau sekku no/ ayame mote/ tsukurishi ya ni mo/ fumi ya musuban

    Poem translated in John T.Carpenter, Reading Surimono: The Interplay of Text and Image in Japanese Prints with a catalogue of the Marino Lusy Collection (Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 2008), p. 198.
  • inscription: Poem by Tsurunoya (far right): Kaguyahime no/ fushi no kusuri ni/ ae nan to/ Fuji-bitai ni mo/ kazasu ayame ka

    Poem translated in John T.Carpenter, Reading Surimono: The Interplay of Text and Image in Japanese Prints with a catalogue of the Marino Lusy Collection (Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 2008), p. 198.
  • seal: Artist's seal: Kamiya
  • seal: Printer's mark: Tani Seikō

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
1933.4.1996
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edythe Polster and Alfred H. Marks, Surimono: Prints by Elbow, Lovejoy Press (Washington D.C., 1980), p. 117
  • Javier Alcaíns, ed., Felicitaciones Japonesas (Mérida, 2020), pp. 64-65, ill.

Verification Level

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