Surimono of Landscapes
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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 |
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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 reads: 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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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 gauffrage, also known as “embossing” or “blind
printing”. In gauffrage, a raised
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 |
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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 |
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Description:
Sea and landscape with Size: Date: Schaap:
3.6 |
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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 |
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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 Date:
1849-1850 Schaap:
1.a.7 |
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Description:
A scene on the Size: 18.5
by 52 centimeters Date: Schaap:
Not listed |
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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 |
“Schaap” refers to listing in Heroes and Ghosts: Japanese Prints by Kuniyoshi by Robert Schaap (Hotei Publishing, Leiden, 1998).
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