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Party on the Pleasure Boat Kawaichimaru


川一丸船遊び
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1796–97 (Kansei 8–9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban, four sheets of pentaptych; (a): 39 x 24.5 cm (15 3/8 x 9 5/8 in.), (c): 39 x 24.2 cm (15 3/8 x 9 1/2 in.), (d): 39 x 24.5 cm 5 3/8 x 9 5/8 in.), (e): 39 x 24.1 cm (15 3/8 x 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase
Accession Number00.9a-e
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Mus., Chôbunsai Eishi ten (2023), #23; Someya, Chôbunsai Eishi mokuroku (Chiba, 2023), #213; MFA, Golden Age (2010), #122; Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #96; Brandt, Hosoda Eishi (1977), fig. 220, list no. 277
DescriptionFour sheets of an incomplete pentaptych. (The pentaptych was originally complete, but one sheet has been missing since 1930.)

MFA impressions: 00.9a-e (four sheets only), 11.14055VR (11.14055, 11.14160-3), 21.7443-6 (four sheets only)
Signed Eishi zu (on each sheet)
栄之図
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極