[modernly supplied title]
蔦にやまがら
tsuta ni yamagara
Ivy and Varied Tit
ツタにヤマガラ
Edition I (only edition): | 楽山篁子生 | Raku-zan Kou-shi-sei | + 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. 114-4 is the Fan Series design with fan shape 4 in the 114 Ivy theme. Like all other designs in this series, 114-4 was only produced in a single print run, and few copies are currently documented.
Theme History:The individual designs in the 114 Ivy theme were completed in at least two stages. Three of the five fan designs have seal C which indicates a carving date during the first half of 1934. The other two fan designs (including 114-4) and the 36 Series design 114 have seal B which indicates a later carving period closer to the time of publication.
At least some of these ivy designs were adapted from sketches originally created in the late 1920s for design 17 of the earlier 100 Series (see below).
Description:The woodblock print of 114-4 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:
![]() 114-4 as originally drawn (reconstruction) |
Varied Tit, Parus varius, 山雀, やまがら, ヤマガラ, yama-gara, lit. 'mountain tit', is a familiar native species. Rakusan was fond of portraying these active little birds, and they occur in several different designs.
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114-1 | 114-2 | 114-3 | 114-5 | 114 |
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17alt | 17 | 28 |
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57 | 112-3 | 134-3 | 134-5 | 123 |