Courtesans Parading at New Year: Kisegawa of the Matsubaya, kamuro Takeno and Sasano

「松はや内　きせ川　たけの　ささの」

Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1789–90 (Kansei 1–2)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 24.6 cm (14 3/4 x 9 11/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number11.2108

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Someya, Chôbunsai Eishi mokuroku (Chiba, 2023), #124; Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #60

DescriptionRight sheet of incomplete triptych.

MFA impressions: *11.2108 (right sheet only, deaccessioned in 2019), 11.14131-3 (complete triptych)

Signed Eishi ga
栄之画