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Amiable-looking (Aisô ga yosasô): Sensô-ji Temple at Kinryûzan (Kinryûzan Sensô-ji), from the series Twelve Views of Modern Beauties (Imayô bijin jûni kei)


「今様美人十二景 愛走がよさそう 金龍山浅草寺」
Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1822–23 (Bunsei 5–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.6 x 26.5 cm (15 3/16 x 10 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Henry Adams
Accession Number20.135
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), #136; another print in the series: POLA Research Inst., Edo bijin no yosooi (2018), pp. 92-3
Signed Keisai Eisen ga
渓斎英泉画
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)