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Nihonbashi in Edo (Edo Nihonbashi): Hanaôgi of the Ôgiya, from the series A Tôkaidô Board Game of Courtesans: Fifty-three Pairings in the Yoshiwara (Keisei dôchû sugoroku/Mitate Yoshiwara gojûsan tsui [no uchi])


「傾城道中双六 見立よしはら五十三つい 江戸日本橋 扇屋内 花扇」
Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1821–23 (Bunsei 4–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39.3 x 25.9 cm (15 1/2 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Porter Sargent
Accession Number49.1745
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), #217; another print in the series (Mishima): Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 4, Victoria and Albert Museum I (1989), pl. 160
DescriptionMFA impressions: *11.25555 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.40898.8 (bottom half only), 49.1745
Signed Keisai Eisen ga
渓斎英泉画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極