Surimono of landscapes
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Title: Cranes live a thousand years,
tortoises ten thousand years and everything will be all right (Senkaku manki daidai kanou) Description: Close-up of a net containing fish, an
octopus and a lobster with mount Fuji in the distance Size: 36.8 by 51.4 centimeters Publisher: Mikuni-ya Shosuke Date: 1849-1850 Schaap: 1.a.7 NOTE: This is a
program for a musical recital. |
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Series: A Series of
Five Views of Mount Fuji ( Description: A distant
sunrise view of Size: Shikishiban
(about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: 1827-1829 Schaap: 2.a.5.1 I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
alternate state of the above surimono without dark clouds. |
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This alternative state with no poem and
lacking the series title and emblem of the poetry club is listed in Schaap as
2.a.5.1a. |
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Title: The Birth of
an Description: Enoshima rising from the sea at behest of the goddess Benten Size: Shikishiban
(about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: c. 1835 Schaap: 3.1 I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. The poem reads The
scent of plum blossoms laughing in the spring breeze, The water of Asazawa flowing through the snow (春風に笑う梅の香あわ雪もとけて流るる浅沢の水) |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
image of an alternate state with more dark clouds. |
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Title: View of
Hakone: The Stream of Asazawa in the Spring Description: A stream
running between two hills with Size: Shikishiban
(about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: 1828 Schaap: 3.2 The poem translates as: In the spring wind, there is the scent of the laughing plum. The soft snow melts to be the waters of the Asazawa. |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
image with the poem in a different location.
Schaap also lists a variant of this image
without a poem as 3.2a. |
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Description: Distant view
of the Size: Shikishiban
(about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Publisher: Ise-ya Sanjirô Date: 1827-1829 Schaap: 3.3 |
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This is another state of the above surimono without Kuniyoshi’s square red signature seal in the
left lower corner. The crests of the
waves demonstrate karazuri, also known as “gauffrage”,
“embossing” or “blind printing”. In karazuri,
a design is produced by pressing the paper against a carved but uninked
woodblock. |
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Description: A man
crossing a plank bridge leading to a small shrine on an island Size: Shikishiban (about
8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: Schaap: 3.4 NOTE: This surimono is unsigned. I am grateful to Ward Pieters for the
image. |
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Description: A tortoise
seated by a pine tree watching the New Year’s sunrise Size: Shikishiban
(about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: c.1832 Schaap: 3.5 I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Description: Sea and
landscape with Size: Date: Schaap: 3.6 |
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Description: A kyôka poem on poem
paper and a landscape of pine branches, cranes and the sea (Tsuru ni umi no kei) Size: Shikishiban
(about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: Early 1830s Schaap: 4.1 I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
image. |
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Description: A scene on
the Size: Nagaban 7 1/4 × 20 7/16 inches (18.4 × 51.9 cm) Date: c.
1815-1817 Schaap: Not listed |
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“Schaap” refers to listing in Heroes and Ghosts: Japanese Prints by Kuniyoshi by Robert Schaap (Hotei Publishing, Leiden, 1998). CLICK
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