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Night Rain of the Viewing Hours (Hikeyotsu no yau), from the series Eight Views of Events in the Yoshiwara (Seirô gyôji hakkei)


「青楼行事八景 引ヶ四つ乃夜雨」
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Kawaguchiya Uhei (Fukusendō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1814–17 (Bunka 11–14)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.4 x 25.7 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Henry Adams
Accession Number20.96
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks, Japanese Woodblock Prints (2010), p. 116; Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), list #46.3 and cat. no. 230; TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 2 (1962), #2455
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.41503, 20.96
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)