Lot Essay
The print represents the unjustly exiled boy attendant to the emperor Mu (r. 1001-946 BCE) of the Western Zhou dynasty who was adopted into Japanese legend as the Chrysanthemum Boy, Kikujido.
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Shu no Kikujido (The Chrysanthemum Boy, Kikujido, of the Zhou dynasty)
Details
Tamura Yoshinobu (act. 1725-34)
Shu no Kikujido (The Chrysanthemum Boy, Kikujido, of the Zhou dynasty)
Woodcut with handcolored red lead pigment (tan-e) of Kikujido drinking chrysanthemum dew to achieve immortality beside a stream flowing from a cascade in the background, the youth seated between stands of chrysanthemums about to inscribe a large leaf with a brush taken from a writing box, signed Yamato gako Tamura Yoshinobu, published by Murataya Jirobei--very good impression, good color, minor stains, generally good condition
hosoban tate-e: 12 3/8 x 5.7/in. (31.6 x 15cm.)
Shu no Kikujido (The Chrysanthemum Boy, Kikujido, of the Zhou dynasty)
Woodcut with handcolored red lead pigment (tan-e) of Kikujido drinking chrysanthemum dew to achieve immortality beside a stream flowing from a cascade in the background, the youth seated between stands of chrysanthemums about to inscribe a large leaf with a brush taken from a writing box, signed Yamato gako Tamura Yoshinobu, published by Murataya Jirobei--very good impression, good color, minor stains, generally good condition
hosoban tate-e: 12 3/8 x 5.7/in. (31.6 x 15cm.)
Provenance
Mme. Beres, Paris by repute
Exhibited
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999; "The Max Palevsky Collection of Japanese Woodblock Prints," 2001.2.8-5.15
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The provenance for this lot should read "Mme. Beres, Paris by repute"
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