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A Collection of Surimono

Katsushika Taito II (active 1810-1853) | Lady Kayo, An Incarnation of the Nine-tailed Fox | Edo period, 19th century

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A Collection of Surimono

Katsushika Taito II (active circa 1810-1853) 

Lady Kayo, An Incarnation of the Deadly Nine-tailed Fox

Edo period, 19th century 


woodblock print, surimono, embellished with metallic pigments and embossing, signed Katsushika Taito, privately issued in 1832, poem by Shoshoen Harundo


Surimono, shikishiban: 20.3 x 17.5 cm., 8 x 6⅞ in. 

Hayashi Tadamasa (1905-1986)

Theodor N. Scheiwe (1897-1983)

The poem by Shoshoen (Komatsuen) Harundo has been translated in Roger Keyes, The Art of Surimono: Privately Published Japanese Woodblock Prints and Books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, volume two, (London, 1985), p. 385:


In my dream I saw it: in the morning I will string

my bow and shoot the falcon-feathered arrow


Hatsuyume o mitaru ashita no yumi no tsuru

iza hanasabaya taka no ha no soya


For a further example of the same print in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boson, accession number 34.328, go to: 

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/246323