[modernly supplied title]
ぼけの花に蝸牛
boke no hana ni katatsumuri
Quince Flowers and [Bush] Snail
ボケの花にカタツムリ
Edition I (only edition): | 楽山篁子生 | Raku-zan Kou-shi-sei | + Seal A |
[For illustration of seals listed by seal code letter, see the Seals article.]
Series History and Definitions:Rakusan arranged the Fan Series prints into shared-subject groups typically consisting of one design in each of five different fan silhouette shapes. Each of these groups of Fan Series designs are united by a corresponding polychrome 36 Series design which defines the subject. Each shared-subject Fan Series group and its 36 Series design together comprise a theme (画題, gadai).
Rakusan did not include the Fan Series in his main sequence numbering. Therefore, the original number used for each of the 36 Series prints has been modified to identify the Fan Series members of its theme. The five different fan silhouette shapes have been here assigned arbitrary numbers 1 through 5. To indicate a fan design these shape designations are added to the 36 Series number separated by a hyphen. In themes which contain duplicated fan shapes, one has been arbitrarily designated A and the other B. 106-2 indicates that this is a Fan Series design with fan shape 2 in the 106 Quince theme. Like all other designs in this series, 106-2 was only produced in a single print run, and few copies are currently documented.
Theme History:The woodblock print of 106-2 was modeled closely on an actual-size original sumi sketch which although lost can be reconstructed by digitally reversing the image of the woodblock print:
![]() 106-2 as originally drawn (reconstruction) |
The land snail shown in 106-2 has a distinctive dark central stripe which suggests one of species of the endemic Japanese arboreal land snail genus Euhadra, often called in English 'bush snails'. It may be Euhadra amaliae, 口紅蝸牛, クチベニマイマイ, kuchibenimaimai, lit. 'lipstick snail'. The general name for any kind of snail (i.e. a member of the molluscan class Gastropoda) is 蝸牛, かたつむり, カタツムリ, katatsumuri. However when used without a qualifier, the name is more often applied to land snails than to marine or freshwater species, and the general name is often applied informally to this species and to other bush snails.
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106-1 | 106-3 | 106-4 | 106-5 | 106 |
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8 | 105-1 (?) |
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133-4 |