Collected Haiku Poems (Hokku shū) 発句集

1793

Not on view

A small book of a total of twenty-eight printed pages, this compact volume still manages to unite the hokku (starting verses of linked haikai poetry, today known as haiku) of more than a hundred-twenty different poets. The poems are complemented with woodblock-printed images of five artists, of whom Goshun, Genki and Watanabe Nangaku all belong to the Maruyama-Shijō school. While these three were well-established painters of their time, Mikuma Katen is known as the illustrator of Lives of Extraordinary People of Recent Times (Kinsei kijinden, 1790), the popular account of the lives of eccentric persons by the author Ban Kōkei (Mikuma would later write the book’s sequel, Zoku kinsei kijinden).

The pictures are as follows: 1) Mikuma Katen: Veiled Lady and Courtiers; 2) Genki: Sparrow on a Vine of Morning Glories; 3) Watanabe Nangaku: Two Women; 4) Goshun: Chestnut and Mushrooms; 5) Fusetsu Yūjō: Lotus.

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発句集
Title: Collected Haiku Poems (Hokku shū) 発句集
Artist: Genki 源琦 (Komai Ki 駒井琦 (Japanese, 1747–1797)
Artist: Matsumura Goshun 松村呉春 (Japanese, 1752–1811)
Artist: Watanabe Nangaku 渡辺南岳 (Japanese, 1763–1813)
Artist: Mikuma Katen (Japanese)
Artist: Fusetsu Yujo (Japanese)
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Date: 1793
Culture: Japan
Medium: Woodblock printed book (orihon, accordion-style); ink and color on paper
Dimensions: 11 × 8 3/8 in. (28 × 21.2 cm)
Classification: Illustrated Books
Credit Line: Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, 2013
Object Number: 2013.876
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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