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Triptych of Hanging Scrolls: Playing with Reality (Kakemono sanpukutsui, utsutsu no asobi)


「掛物三幅対 現の遊」
Nishimura Shigenaga (Japanese, 1697?–1756)
Publisher: Shusseidô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1750s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (benizuri-e); ink and limited color on paper, with hand-applied color added later
Dimensions Uncut hosoban triptych; 28.7 x 45.8 cm (11 5/16 x 18 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.716
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, Images of Eighteenth-Century Japan (1975), #43; Gunsaulus, AIC cat. I (1955), p. 198, #29
Signed Nishimura Shigenaga hitsu (on the hanging scroll within each design)
西村重長筆
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross