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品名（中）	梅花枝庭院
品名（英）	Courtesan with Branch of Plum Blossoms
入馆年号	2013年，2013.1126.3
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Totoya Hokkei【1780 至 1850】【日本人】
创作年份	公元 1835
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	图像: 7 1/4 × 6 3/4 英寸 (18.4 × 17.1 厘米)
介绍（中）	一位高级正在用一枝樱花准备插花，这是农历新年和春天到来的象征。她回头欣赏壁龛里挂着的山羊卷轴画，表明他的surimono（私人出版的木刻版画）是为了庆祝山羊年的春天而创作的——在这种情况下是1835年。腰带上浮雕着印刷此内容的诗歌团体的扇形徽章，似乎是用普鲁士蓝印刷的，这种颜料从 1829 年左右开始广泛用于木版画。三首关于春节主题的 kyōka（31 音节诙谐诗句）伴随着图像。左边的诗，荣誉的位置，是京家大师弥生安日向丸二世写的。印刷品的签名是"青木冈龙神"或"青井冈老人"。虽然起初我们认为这可能是指鸟屋北景的学生青井冈圭斋，他也使用过这个名字，但研究表明，这必须指的是大师而不是学生。北景的gō（样式名称）是Aoigaoka，并于1836年在另一幅版画上使用了这个签名，此外，他的墓碑上刻有他的名字"Aoigaoka Rōjin Hokkei kun no haka"（Aogiaoka Rōjin Hokkei kun no haka"（北景大师，青井冈老人的坟墓）。
介绍（英）	A high-ranking courtesan is shown preparing a flower arrangement from a bough of cherry blossoms, a symbol of the arrival of New Year and spring in the lunar calendar. She gazes back to admire a hanging scroll painting of a goat in the alcove, indicating that his surimono (privately published woodblock print) was created to celebrate spring of the year of the goat—1835 in this case. The obi sash, embossed with a fan emblem of the poetry group that printed this, appears to be printed in Prussian blue, a pigment that was used extensively in woodblock prints from around 1829 onwards. Three kyōka (31-syllable witty verse) on vernal themes accompany the image. The poem on the left, the position of honor, is by the kyōka master Yayoian Hinamaru II. The print is signed “Aoigaoka rōjin,” or “Old Man Aoigaoka.” Though at first we thought that this might refer to Aoigaoka Keisai, a pupil of Totoya Hokkei, who also used this name, research shows that this must refer to the master not the pupil. Hokkei’s gō (style name) was Aoigaoka, and in 1836 used this signature on another print, Furthermore, his gravestone is engraved with his name as “Aoigaoka Rōjin Hokkei kun no haka” (The Tomb of Master Hokkei, Old Man Aoigaoka).