Format: Shikishiban (left sheet of five-panel print).
Inscribed [two poems]: Itozakura yanagi no ito ni ame no ito onaji teburi o misuru harukaze. (The tendrils of the cherry tree and willow, the streaks of rain, all make the same dance movements in the spring wind.) -- Seikaitei Kamendo Harusame mo yaya.
Provenance: Purchased at one of three 1947 sales at Parke-Bernet or at Gimbels Department Store, New York City.
Signed: Gakutei Sadaoka hitsu.
Source acquisition
Gift of Gillett G. Griffin in honor of Dale Roylance. Given 2008.
References
Roger S. Keyes, The Art of Surimono (New York: Harper and Row, 1985), plate 48, p. 90.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
Hisakataya Furuichi Odori // [The Dance at Furuichi for the Hisakataya Poetry Group]
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