Ima Genji nishiki-e awase (series title)

Japanese Collection

Accession Nr.: 7728
Type: print; woodblock print
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
1854
Edo (Tokugawa) period
Place of production:
Acquisition: collected by Péter Vay
Signed: Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche 豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks: Censor's seal (round): aratame (改), date seal (oval): Tiger 2 (寅二), publisher (white cartouche): Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudō)
Materials/Techniques: paper, woodblock print
Dimensions: height 26.6 cm
width 18 cm
[今源氏錦絵合, 匂宮]
Series of 54 sheets, date of production: 1852-1854.
Inventory numbers of the sheets in the series:
6814, 6815, 6822, 6831, 7692, 7693, 7694, 7695, 7696, 7697, 7698, 7699, 7700, 7701, 7702, 6812, 7703, 7704, 7705, 7706, 7707, 7708, 7709, 7710, 7711, 7712, 7713, 7714, 7715, 7716, 7717, 7718, 7719, 7720, 7721, 7722, 7723, 7724, 7725, 7726, 7727, 7728, 7729, 7730, 7731, 7732, 7733, 7734, 7735, 7736, 7737, 7738, 7739, 7740
Each page depicts a scene from Ryutei Tanehiko's Nise Murasaki's Inaka Genji, accompanied by a 31-syllable (mora) humorous Japanese poem called kyoka.