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Portrait of a Fashionable Cherry-blossom Viewing Party (Fûryû hanami sugata-e)


「風流花見姿絵」
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Kawaguchiya Uhei (Fukusendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1812 (Bunka 9), 1st or 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.4 x 25.1 cm (15 1/8 x 9 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Henry Adams
Accession Number20.95
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), triptych list #83 and cat. no. 409 (R and L sheets); Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 11, Museo d'Arte Orientale, Genoa, II (1989), pl. 93 (complete triptych)
DescriptionLeft sheet of incomplete triptych; 20.94 is the right sheet.
Signed Kikukawa Eizan hitsu
菊川英山筆
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)