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Cutting One's Nails in the Year of the Chicken, Metal of the Scissors (Tsume o tori no toshi hasami no kinsei), from an untitled series of the Five Elements (Gogyô)


五行 「つめを酉のとしはさみの金性」
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Ezakiya Tatsuzô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1818–23 (Bunsei 1–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.6 x 24.7 cm (14 7/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number17.3214.2
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), list #326.4, other prints in the series: cat. nos. 357-9; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 2, British Museum II (1988), pl. 239; TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 2 (1962), #2452
Signed Kikukawa Eizan hitsu
菊川英山筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極