Komachi on the Gravepost (Sotoba Komachi), from the series Fashionable Beauties as the Seven Komachi (Fûryû bijin nana Komachi)

Advanced Search

LICENSE IMAGE

ORDER PRINT

DOWNLOAD

Komachi on the Gravepost (Sotoba Komachi), from the series Fashionable Beauties as the Seven Komachi (Fûryû bijin nana Komachi)

「風流美人七小町　そとわ小町」

Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1814–17 (Bunka 11–14)

Object Place: Japan

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.5 x 25.2 cm (14 3/8 x 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Henry Adams

Accession Number20.111

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), list #248.3 and cat. no. 322

Signed Eizan hitsu
英山筆

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

ProvenanceHenry Brooks Adams (b. 1838 - d. 1918), Washington, DC; 1920, gift of the estate of Henry Brooks Adams to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 22, 1920)