Komachi Praying for Rain (Amagoi Komachi), from the series Fashionable Seven Komachi (Fûryû nana Komachi)

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Komachi Praying for Rain (Amagoi Komachi), from the series Fashionable Seven Komachi (Fûryû nana Komachi)

「風流七小町」　雨乞い小町

Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1809–13 (Bunka 6–10)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.4 x 24.7 cm (14 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Henry Adams

Accession Number20.88

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), list #218.1 (no photo); other prints in the series: cat. nos. 173-4

Signed Kikukawa Eizan hitsu
菊川英山筆

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
No publisher's mark
改印：極
版元：なし

InscriptionsPoem: Kotowari ya/ hi no moto nareba/ teri mo sen/ saritote wa mata/ ame ga shita to wa

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)