A Floating World Clock as the Bell of Muken (Ukiyo tokei Muken no kane)

「浮世とけいむけんのかね」

Nishimura Shigenaga (Japanese, 1697?–1756)
Publisher: Izutsuya San'emon (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

early 1740s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (beni-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color

Dimensions Horizontal ô-ôban; 33 x 46.8 cm (13 x 18 7/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.958

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 1 (1983), pl. 44

Signed Gakô Senkadô Nishimura Shigenaga hitsu
画工千花堂西村重長筆

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross