id:			152503
accession number:	1985.324
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.324
updated:		2023-03-14 12:01:27.244000

A Picture by Hishikawa Moronobu: Woman with a Set of Poem Cards, mid 1820s. Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850). Color woodblock print (surimono) with gold, silver, and embossing; sheet: 21 x 18.4 cm (8 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.324

title:				A Picture by Hishikawa Moronobu: Woman with a Set of Poem Cards
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creation date:			mid 1820s
creation date earliest:		1824
creation date latest:		1827
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creditline:			The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	color woodblock print (surimono) with gold, silver, and embossing
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	Japanese Art
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)  - artist

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

	inscription:	Signature: Hokkei mo
Artist Seal: Fusenkyo
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection
	opening date:   1988-09-14T04:00:00
	<i>A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14-November 13, 1988).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	A. Hugh Fisher
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	The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899-1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-1985
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1985-
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wall 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.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	“Checklist of the Kelvin Smith Bequest.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 75, no. 7, 1988, pp. 292–295.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 292
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160040

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