IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 182361 accession number: P.482-1937 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 6 January 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Surimono. Shikishiban. From the series of fifteen spring kyōka surimono entitled Niwatori-awase (A contest of fowls), commissioned by the Taiko poetry group for the year of the cock. The series was unusual in that it consisted of six pairs of prints (right and left) designed by Shinsai and Kunisada, and a triptych by Hokkei. The pair to this print is Aburadori (MFA Boston). ‘Mixed cock-crows’ (midare-dori) was a poetic term expressing a time late in the dawn; it is also the title on the cover of the Meriyasu keiko-bon (instruction manual for popular ballads) which the young girl is using for her shamisen lesson. 'Midare' is also suggestive of disorder, and may hint that the young learner's skills are not yet developed. She is dressed up in a new kimono and with her hair arranged for the first music lesson of the New Year. Music was often taught by female instructors, particularly popular music. title: surimono LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/182361 TECHNIQUES ---------- Colour print from woodblocks, with metallic pigment and blind embossing (karazuri). woodcut TECHNIQUES ---------- colour printing CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1825 - 1825 creation date earliest: 1825 creation date latest: 1825 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Kunisada, Utagawa EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Women in Japanese Prints