Ehon Himetsubaki|繪本女貞木|Picture Book: Camellia (Ehon Himetsubaki)

Nishikawa Sukenobu

1745(?) · Bound book of monochrome woodblock prints; ink on paper · Asian Art

This book features illustrations of exemplary women. According to the text in the upper section of these pages, a beautiful plum tree owned by a poor woman was to be transferred to the garden of Emperor Goichijō's palace by imperial order, but the emperor, moved by the lady's poem expressing sympathy for the warblers that would lose their nest, decided not to take the tree. The brushwork of the plum tree reveals Sukenobu's training in the Kano idiom.

Artist

Nishikawa Sukenobu

Date

1745(?)

Medium

Bound book of monochrome woodblock prints; ink on paper

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. Morris Manges, in memory of her husband, Dr. Morris Manges, 1947