Opening Night in the Theater District for Two Theaters of Edo (Edo ryôza Shibai-machi kaomise no zu)

「江戸両座芝居町顔見世之図」

Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)

Japanese

Edo period

1841 (Tenpô 12)

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 21.3 x 34.3 cm (8 3/8 x 13 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.792

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), #104; Toyama, The Western-style Colour Prints in Japan (1936), pl. 162

Signed Eisen ga
英泉画

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross