[modernly supplied title]
ぼけの花と松の苗
boke no hana to matsu no nae
Quince Flowers and Pine Seedlings
ボケの花と松の苗
Edition I (only edition): | 篁子生 | Kou-shi-sei | + Seal A |
The signature 篁子生, Kou-shi-sei forms the basis of the titles for both series in the 篁子生画選, Koushisei Gasen, Project. However on woodblock prints it is an uncommon signature variation used with only a few designs. Rakusan soon elaborated this signature to 楽山篁子生, Raku-zan Kou-shi-sei, which is found on most later woodblock prints.
[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. 106-3 indicates that this is a Fan Series design with fan shape 3 in the 106 Quince theme. Like all other designs in this series, 106-3 was only produced in a single print run, and few copies are currently documented.
Theme History:At least some of the quince designs in this theme were adapted from sketches originally created in the late 1920s during the planning of design 8 in the earlier 100 Series (see below).
The Fan Series woodblock prints of the 106 Quince theme were distributed in early 1934 in installment two (of twelve). The delivery documents for installment two remain to be discovered, but its delivery month was either February, March, or April 1934, and the woodblock prints would have been printed during the same month as the publication.
Description:The woodblock print of 106-3 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:
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The general name for all kinds of pine trees, Pine, Pinus, spp. is 松, まつ, マツ, matsu. It is impossible to identify the exact species of pine that Rakusan intended to show in this design since the plants are all small seedlings.
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106-1 | 106-2 | 106-4 | 106-5 | 106 |
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8 | 105-1 (?) |
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121-1A | 121-5A |
[For additional pine motif references, see the webpage for design 121.]