Hanaôgi of the Ôgiya and Kisegawa of the Matsubaya, from the triptych Courtesans as the Six Poetic Immortals (Yûkun Rokkasen)

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Hanaôgi of the Ôgiya and Kisegawa of the Matsubaya, from the triptych Courtesans as the Six Poetic Immortals (Yûkun Rokkasen)

「遊君六哥仙　扇屋花扇　松葉屋喜瀬川」

Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Publisher: Iwatoya Kisaburô (Eirindô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1794 (Kansei 6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.2 x 25.2 cm (15 1/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.4939

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné about 1789 (Tenmei 9/Kansei 1)Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #92 (complete); Brandt, Hosoda Eishi (1977), fig. 182 (two sheets), list nos. 243-4; Michener, Floating World (1954), #54

DescriptionOne sheet of incomplete triptych.

Signed Eishi zu
栄之図

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

ProvenancePurchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from W. L. Keane collection (#369); December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.