Twilight Snow at Mount Hira (Hira bosetsu), from the series Fashionable Beauties for the Eight Views of Ômi (Fûryû bijin Ômi hakkei)

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Twilight Snow at Mount Hira (Hira bosetsu), from the series Fashionable Beauties for the Eight Views of Ômi (Fûryû bijin Ômi hakkei)

「風流美人近江八景　比良暮雪」

Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1814–17 (Bunka 11–14)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.5 x 24.8 cm (14 x 9 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Henry Adams

Accession Number20.117

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), list #231.6 (no photo); Ukiyo-e taisei 10 (1930), #319

Signed Eizan hitsu
英山筆

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

ProvenanceHenry Brooks Adams (b. 1838 - d. 1918), Washington, DC; 1920, gift of the estate of Henry Brooks Adams to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 22, 1920)