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A Picture by Hishikawa Moronobu: Woman with a Set of Poem Cards
Hokkeimid 1820s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The poem by Ganjotei Shirataka reads: Friendly, amid the starry forest of the plum branches the voice of the warbler singing of the sun and moon.
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- Title: A Picture by Hishikawa Moronobu: Woman with a Set of Poem Cards
- Creator: Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
- Date Created: mid 1820s
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 21 x 18.4 cm (8 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: A. Hugh Fisher, The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899-1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Print
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.324
- Medium: color woodblock print (surimono) with gold, silver, and embossing
- Inscriptions: Signature: Hokkei mo Artist Seal: Fusenkyo
- Department: Japanese Art
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
- Credit Line: The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Accession Number: 1985.324
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