Yomogiu
Item number 1200/6 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Description
Print depicting a standing figure looking down at a seated old man. Above the figures is a scroll with columns of text, light background patterns and two plants with a printed red outer cover. Below is printed more text, and there are several more columns of text as well as seals throughout. The print is adhered to a card backing with a rice paper window overtop and a rice paper cover attached along one side of the backing.
Narrative
Title: Yomogiu (蓬生); publisher: Ise-ya Ichibei (伊勢屋市兵衛). The print is signed Chōōrō Kuniyoshi ga (朝櫻楼国芳画) with the artist seal known as Yoshi kiri seal (芳桐印). The work is from the Genji kumo ukiyoe awase series (源氏雲浮世画合 (Scenes amid Genji Clouds Matched with Ukiyo-e Pictures), originally published in 1845–1846 by Ise-ya Ichibei (伊勢屋市兵衛). The print title, Yomogiu (蓬生) comes from the title of volume 15 of the Genji monogatari (源氏物語/The Tale of Genji), and has been translated variously as "The Palace in the Tangled Woods" (Waley) and "A Waste of Weeds" (Tyler).
Item History
- Made by Kuniyoshi Utagawa (Maker) in Japan between 1800 and 1900
- Owned by Aileen P. Walker and Charles Walker before March 2, 1987
- Received from Aileen P. Walker (Donor) and Charles Walker (Donor) on March 2, 1987
What
- Name
- Yomogiu
- Identification Number
- 1200/6
- Type of Item
- Overall
- height 51.5 cm, width 33.0 cm
- Image
- height 37.7 cm, width 25.7 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Japan
Who
- Culture
- Japanese
- Creator
- Kuniyoshi Utagawa (Maker)
- Previous Owner
- Aileen P. Walker and Charles Walker
- Received from
- Aileen P. Walker (Donor) and Charles Walker (Donor)
When
- Creation Date
- between 1800 and 1900
- Ownership Date
- before March 2, 1987
- Acquisition Date
- on March 2, 1987
Other
- Item Classes
- works on paper
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 1200/0006
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