Original woodblock print triptych - Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900) - "Honchō shichikenjo no zu" 本朝七賢女之図 (Depiction of Seven Wise Women of Our Country) - Japan - 1877 (Meiji 10), July
Print Title: Honcho Shichikenjo no Zu 本朝七賢女之図 Depiction of Seven Wise Women of Our Country
Print Type: Bijin-ga 美人画 pictures of beautiful women
Date: 1877 (Meiji 10), 7th month
Artist: Toyohara Kunichika 豊原国周 (signed Toyohara Kunichika hitsu 豊原国周筆 )
Inscriptions (names of poets and poems from right to left):
Suo no Naishi 周防内侍
If I lay my head / Upon his arm in the dark / Of a short spring night,
This innocent dream pillow / Will be the death of my good name.
春の夜の 夢ばかりなる 手枕に かひなく立たむ 名こそ惜しけれ
Sei Shonagon 清少納言
The rooster's crowing / In the middle of the night / Deceived the hearers;
But at Osaka's gateway / The guards are never fooled.
夜をこめて 鳥のそら音は はかるとも 世に逢坂の 関はゆるさじ
Daini no Sanmi 大弐三位
As Mount Arima / Sends its rustling winds across / Ina's bamboo plains,
I will be just as steadfast / And never will forget you.
ありま山 ゐなの笹原 風吹けば いでそよ人を 忘れやはする
Koshikibu no Naishi 小式部内侍
By Oe Mountain / The road to Ikuno / Is far away,
And neither have I beheld / Nor crossed its bridge of heaven.
大江山いく野の道の遠ければ まだふみもみず天の橋立
Izumi Shikibu 和泉式部
Soon my life will close. / When I am beyond this world / And have forgotten it, / Let me remember only this: / One final meeting with you.
あらざらむ この世の外の 思ひ出に 今ひとたびの 逢ふこともがな
Murasaki Shikibu 紫式部
Meeting on the path: / But I cannot clearly know / If it was he,
Because the midnight moon / In a cloud had disappeared.
めぐり逢ひて 見しやそれとも わかぬ間に 雲がくれにし 夜半の月かな
Akazome Emon 赤染衛門
Better to have slept / Care-free, than to keep vain watch / Through the passing night, / Till I saw the lonely moon / Traverse her descending path.
やすらはで 寝なましものを 小夜更けて 傾くまでの 月を見しかな
Carver: Hori Ko Kamekichi 彫工亀吉
Publisher: Tsunajima Kamekichi 綱島亀吉
Medium: Polychrome triptych of vertical large oban 大判 format woodblock prints
Condition: Fair (evident signs of aging and in particular stains, slight wrinkles, fold marks and tiny holes - please look at the pictures)
Size: 36 x 72.5 cm
- Objeto
- Tríptico original grabado en madera
- Técnica
- Impresión en madera Nishiki-e (policromada)
- Material
- Papel washi
- Periodo
- 1877 (Meiji 10), julio
- Región / País de origen
- Japón
- Artista / Creador
- Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900)
- Atribución
- Original
- Tema / representación
- Mujeres poetas
- Título de la obra de arte
- "Honchō shichikenjo no zu" 本朝七賢女之図 (Depiction of Seven Wise Women of Our Country)
- Estado
- Estado aceptable, ver descripción
- Dimensiones
- 36×72.5×0 cm