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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Katsukawa, Shunsho Creator Nationality: Asian; Far East Asian; Japanese Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: Japanese; 1726-1792 Asia,East Asia,Japan Creator Active Place: Asia,East Asia,Japan Creator Name-CRT: Katsukawa Shunsho Title: Plants, porcelain bowl, and glass goblet Title Type: preferred View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1784 Creation End Date: 1794 Creation Date: c. 1789 Creation Place: Asia,East Asia,Japan Object Type: Prints Classification Term: Woodblock Materials and Techniques: Woodblock print. Dimensions: Long surimono; 19.0 x 53.0 cm Inscriptions: SIGNATURE: Shunsho gaARTIST'S WRITTEN SEAL (kao), here printed: Yu(?) AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA ID Number: 1925.2366 Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, The Clarence Buckingham Collection Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html Context: Unusual among Shunsho's prints is this elegant still life of autumn plants in a porcelain bowl with an imported Western glass goblet. Though more usually considered a summer flower, here the morning glory twines around susuki, a kind of pampas grass and one of the 'seven plants of autumn' (aki no nanakusa). The bowl is of brightly enamelled Imari porcelain, with a design of fanciful 'Chinese lions' (shishi) and red peonies in alternating cartouches. On the surface of the water floats a red lacquer sake cup decorated with the character kotobuki (long and happy life). The printing was done with extraordinary delicacy and care to suggest the stems of the plants seen through the water in the bowl and the edges of the leaves seen through the glass goblet. Still life is an uncommon subject for prints of this period, but of course Shunsho's paintings of beautiful women contain many minutely rendered objects and accessories.Surimono were prints privately published in small editions for distribution among friendsor artistic or intellectual coteries. They were intended as festive (often New Year) greetings, invitations to private concerts or other performances, or mementos of some special occasion. Professional artists were commissioned to supply a design appropriate to a text, often a poem, and the whole was printed on luxuriously thick paper using the most refined color-printing techniques. For long surimono, the text was printed on the top half of the sheet-which is missing from this print.Quite possibly, however, the print was issued to commemorate an early autumn gathering organized by some cultivated person of advanced years (hence the 'felicitous long life' on the sake cup).Though there is no text, it is possible to date the print fairly exactly from the form of the signature and seal. Only in 1789 did Shunsho combine a signature in wide 'Teika' style (which he used from the New Year of 1789 until his death) with the dramatically curving kao seal (which he abandoned by the New Year of 1790). Long surimono from the 1780s-by Shunsho, Torii Kiyonaga, and Kitagawa Utamaro-have survived in very small numbers, and this is the only impression of the design currently known. AMICA ID: AIC_.1925.2366 AMICA Library Year: 1998 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998 AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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