Edo prints
| Design: | Suzuki Harunobu (1725-1770) | |||||
| Title: | Rokō-musume: The wild pink | |||||
| Series title: | The flowers of beauty from the floating world | |||||
| Size: | 29.3 x 20.8 cm (chūban) | |||||
| Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Originally published in 1770, this printing is an edition from publisher Takamizawa.
The poem at the top of the print reads:
| teru hi ni mo omou naka ni wa fuku kaze no chiri danu suenu tokonatsu no hana |
On a sunny day, in the midst of peaceful thoughts, the wind came blowing and deposited dust on the flowers of the wild pink. |
Artist’s signature in bottom right print area:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 春 | haru | spring | |
| 信 | shin | faith | Picture by |
| 画 | ga | picture | Harunobu |
Black publisher stamp on verso of the print:
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in which the kanji in the middle column read:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 高 | taka | high | |
| 見 | mi(ru) | see | |
| 澤 | sawa | marsh | Publisher: |
| 版 | han | edition | Takamizawa |
References
- Chiba City Museum of Art (2002). Suzuki Harunobu. Chiba: Chiba City Museum of Art and Hagi Uragami Museum
- Waterhouse, David (2013). The Harunobu decade. A catalogue of woodcuts by Suzuki Harunobu and his followers in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV.
Provenance: Fuji Arts