• <i>Surimono</i>: The peasant (<i>nō</i> - 農) from the series Series of Four (<i>Yonban tsuzuki</i> - 四番続)
<i>Surimono</i>: The peasant (<i>nō</i> - 農) from the series Series of Four (<i>Yonban tsuzuki</i> - 四番続)
<i>Surimono</i>: The peasant (<i>nō</i> - 農) from the series Series of Four (<i>Yonban tsuzuki</i> - 四番続)
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Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) / Toyokuni III (三代豊国) (artist 1786 – 01/12/1865)

Surimono: The peasant (nō - 農) from the series Series of Four (Yonban tsuzuki - 四番続)

Print

ca 1830 – 1835
7.125 in x 8.125 in (Overall dimensions) color woodblock print
Signed: Tōjuen Kunisada ga
桃樹園国貞画
Seal: double toshidama
Printer: Shunpūdō Noshiro Ryūkō
春風堂柳湖摺
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - the figure representing the warrior class (shi - 士) "The Farmer" from a series, "Yonban Tsuzuki" about the four social casts; the Warrior, the Farmer, the Craftsman, the Merchant. The title of this surimono is "No" (the Farmer). Poems (from right), "Inaka nagara sodachi-gara yoku kago no uchi-ni ne o arawashite tsumu uguisu-na" by Karaku-tei Yoshibumi. "Haru wa nigiwau Hanada-mura hanada no michi no wakana tsumu-nimo" by Karin-do Asa-midori.

The outer, blue robe of the woman is decorated with toys which were often associated with children's talismans to keep away diseases like smallpox.

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The inscription reads: 1) 歌楽亭好文　鄙なからそたちからよく篭の内にねをあらはしてつむ鴬菜 and 2) 歌林堂　浅みとり春は賑ふ花田村はな田の色の若葉つむかも.

The Museum of Fine Arts identifies the publisher of this quartet of surimono prints as Shunpūdō Noshiro Ryūkō. This would place this print among a very select few in that most surimono almost never have publisher's seals. However, Keyes noted that this was the printer in another print in that collection.

This printer was known to work on the ehon of Masayoshi, too.

Despite the reading of this seal in the lower right corner we have been unable to find any other information about this publisher.
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