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Rain on the Morning After in the Yoshiwara, a Triptych (Seirô kinuginu ame, sanmai tsuzuki)


「青楼後朝雨 三枚続」
Eishôsai Chôki (Japanese, active about 1780–1810)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1795 (Kansei 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37 x 24.4 cm (14 9/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.4771
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Jenkins et al, The Floating World Revisited (1993), #II-16; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #9
DescriptionCenter sheet of an incomplete triptych. See Jenkins et al for translations of poems.

MFA impressions: 11.14833VR (11.14833, 11.14838, 11.14839; complete), 21.4771 (center sheet only)
Signed Chôki ga
長喜画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
ProvenanceSeptember 1911, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from the E. F. Fenollosa collection; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.