Meeting of a Poetry Club
Fujii Teisa
c. 1860
Medium
Color woodblock print, surimono
Dimensions
24.1 × 18.3 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/4 in.)
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
43555
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
In this print, the artist Fujii Teisa presented a charming view of a gathering of poets, who drink, converse, and read poetry while seated on a red blanket. This idealized view of such a gathering is based on older visual prototypes, and Teisa took this image from a model drawn by Taniguchi Gesso (1773–1865), who specialized in figural sketches. Teisa was a haiku poet and follower of Suganuma Kushibuchi (1747–1834), from whom he took the name Hananoya, with which he signed this work. By signing...