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Autumn Moon at Yatsuyama (Yatsuyama no aki no tsuki): Iroyo (?) and Nokaze of Matsuzaka, from the series Eight Views of the Elegant Courtesans of Shinagawa (Shinagawa kunshi hakkei)


「品川君姿八景 やつ山の秋の月 松阪の 色よ(ヵ) おなしく 野風」 (品川君競八景ヵ)
Attributed to: Kitao Shigemasa (Japanese, 1739–1820)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1780

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39 x 26 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1126
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Other prints in the series: TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 2 (1962), #s 1367 and 1368
DescriptionTwo other prints from the unsigned series are in the collection of the Tokyo National Museum, which reads the fourth character in the series title as "kurabe" rather than "sugata."
The mysterious blockcutter's mark also appears on a print by Torii Kiyohiro, dateable to 1760, in the Art Institute of Chicago: Gunsaulus, AIC cat. I (1955), p. 241, #18.
Signed Unsigned
無款
Marks Blockcutter's mark: Tsûsen
彫師:通仙
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross