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