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Kunisada, GENJI MONOGATARI Ukiyo-e Print#2080026106 Item No : #2080026106 Item : Ukiyo-e(Story) Artist : Utagawa Kunisada(Toyokuni III) Weight : 0.01kg Height : 26.0cm 10 1/4" Width : 19.0cm 7 1/2" GENJI MONOGATARI or "Tale of Genji" which was a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century. The pictorial subject of this print is Hana-no-en or "The Festival of the Cherry Blossom", Chapter 8 of GENJI MONOGATARI (The Tale of Genji). Relating the secret affair between Genji and the sixth daughter of the Minister of the Right, Oborozukiyo (literally night of the hazy moon), who was being prepared to be married to the crown prince. After spending a night together, they exchange fans. Another illustrated scene from this chapter is in the mansion of the Minister of the Right several months later at the wisteria festival, when they met each other again. Genji takes her hand through a crack in the blind and they exchange poems on "the misty moon of spring". Japanese poem called "waka" is written on the upper left. The poem means : "I wish to know whose dewy lodge it is Ere winds blow past the bamboo-tangled moor" "Genjiko" in the title is a game to choose a scent out of fifty four based on fifty four tales of Genji and players guess and answer the scent in reference to "Genji-kou no zu" (a diagram). Genji-ko diagrams can be seen in the caroutche as well as in the right below sliding doors. Two different diagrams in dark blue and in pale blue representing "Sakaki" (The Secret Tree #10) and "Hatsune" (The First Warbler #23). It should be noted that both chapters include the scenes of rendezvous between Hikaru Genji and Oborozukiyo. Good Impression and Colors The title âeoeGenji-kou no zu Hana-no-enâe and its corresponding diagram are written in the cartouche on the upper right Rakkan "Toyokuni-ga" and Nanushi-in "Muramatsu Genroku" are applied on the left below, which suggests this print was published ca 1843-47. shipping 
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