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Komachi, from the series Six Selected Flowers Imitating the Six Poetic Immortals (Yatsushi Rokkasen)


「略六花撰 小町」
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1796 (Kansei 8)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.3 x 26 cm (14 11/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.4921
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Someya, Chôbunsai Eishi mokuroku (Chiba, 2023), #246; Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #39.4; Genshoku ukiyo-e dai hyakka jiten 7 (1980), #351; Brandt, Hosoda Eishi (1977), fig. 96, list no. 248; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #519
DescriptionUnidentified publisher's mark. Most likely from the Nishimuraya family.
Signed Eishi zu
栄之図
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
ProvenanceSpring 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.