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Akazome Emon, from the series Fashionable Female Six Poetic Immortals (Fûryû onna rokkasen)


「風流女六歌仙 赤染衛門」
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Ezakiya Kichibei (Tenjudō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1811 (Bunka 8), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.8 x 26.1 cm (15 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Henry Adams
Accession Number20.98
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), list #158.1 and cat. no. 73
DescriptionMFA impressions: *11.41511 (deaccessioned in 2012), 20.98
Signed Eizan hitsu
英山筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
InscriptionsPoem: Yasurawade/ nenamashi mono o/ sayo fukete/ katamuku made no/ tsuki o mishi ka na
「やすらはでねなましものをさよふてかたむくまての月を見しかな」
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)