[modernly supplied title]
鶏頭に雀
keitou ni suzume
Crested Cockscomb and Sparrow
ケイトウにスズメ
Edition I (only edition): | [no signature] | Seal B |
[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. 113-3 is the Fan Series design with fan shape 3 in the 113 Cockscomb theme. Like all other designs in this series, 113-3 was only produced in a single print run, and few copies are currently documented.
Theme History:The individual designs in the 113 Cockscomb theme were completed in at least two stages. Four of the five fan designs have seal C which indicates a carving date during the first half of 1934. The remaining fan design 113-3 and the 36 Series design 113 have seal B which indicates a later carving period closer to the time of publication.
The name used here for the 113 Cockscomb theme is a translation of 鶏頭, keitou, upon which the Japanese names for not only all varieties of cockscombs, but also for amaranths and other members of the Amaranth Family, are based. The six designs of the 113 Cockscomb theme include four only with crested cockscombs, one with both plumed and crested cockscomb, and one with tricolor amaranth. Therefore, the theme is based not only to the crested cockscomb design 35 of the earlier 100 Series, but also to the tricolor amaranth design 55. At least some 113 Cockscomb theme designs were adapted from sketches originally created in the late 1920s for those earlier large designs (see below).
Description:The woodblock print of 113-3 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:
![]() 113-3 as originally drawn (reconstruction) |
Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Passer montanus, is today written in Japanese ornithological texts as スズメ, suzume, where it refers only to this species. However, popular usage, 雀, suzume, remains a very common general name for any sort of small sparrow or sparrow-like bird in modern Japanese.
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113-1 | 113-2 | 113-4 | 113-5 | 113 |
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35alt | 35 | 55 |
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3 | 50 |
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106-1 | 110-5 | 116-1 | 122-1 | 133-2 |