Accession no. FSC-GR-780.231

Title: Kōetsuryū bonga hitori geiko 光悦流盆画独稽古

NIJL catalogue no. 406

Volume numbers: Complete in one volume 全

Variant title: Bonga hitorigeiko 盆画独稽古 (daisen)

Contents/Foliation: First preface signed Rokujuen 六樹園

Inscription in first illustration signed Yomonoutagaki Magao 四方歌垣真顔

Second preface [signed?] Hōrai Sanjin 蓬莱山人

Poem by Kinpōdō 錦鳳堂

Table of contents

First postscript signed Shūchōdō Rōjin 秋長堂老人

Second postscript signed Sugawara Nagane Shakuyakutei 菅原長根芍薬亭

Advertisements of published and forthcoming books

Seals and inscriptions: Owner's seal: Pulverer

Additional colophon data: The colophopn lists six other publishers: Itamiya Zenbē 伊丹屋善兵衛, Kawachiya Genshichirō 河内屋源七郎, Suharaya Mohē 須原屋茂兵衛, Okadaya Kashichi 岡田屋嘉七, Hanabusa Daisuke 英大助, and Nishimuraya Yohachi 西村屋与八.

Notes: Main title from book incipit

Date from preface

The author, Gekka Eijo, was a kyōka poet also known as Shunjūan 春秋庵. She lived in Edo (Nihonbashi Koamiachō 日本橋小綱町) with her husband, Kinpōdō Nagao 錦鳳堂永雄, and she was acquainted with the kyōka group led by Shunchōdō 秋長堂 (see Kokusho jinmei jiten, vol. 2, p. 160). According to Kōka shomoku shūsei 狂歌書目集成, Gekka Eijo (Shunjūan 春秋庵), Kinpōdō Nagao (Kinpōdō 錦鳳堂), and Hokusai collaborated on the compilation of an illustrated kyōka book titled Kachō gasen uta-awase 花鳥画賛歌合 (see the entry in KSMD, item ID 805550). The second postscript explains that the editor of this book, Sonzai Kōichi 存斎光一, was a disciple of Hokusai. Rokujuen was Ishikawa Masamochi 石川雅望, editor of the famous kyōka anthology. Shūchōdō rōjin, compiler of the second postface, is probably Shūchōdō Butsuryō 秋長堂物梁. Yomo no utagaki Magao was Shikatsube Magao, a kyōka and kibyōshi writer; his signature appears in the plate at the beginning of the book (sheet 3 recto). Sugawara Nagane is the kyōka poet Shakuyakutei Nagane 芍薬亭長根.

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