Ninth Month: The Ginger Market at Shiba Shinmei (Kugatsu, Shiba Shinmei shôga ichi), from the series Twelve Months of Beauties of the Floating World (Ukiyo bijin jûnikagetsu)

「浮世美人十二箇月　九月芝明神せうが市」

Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38 x 26.5 cm (14 15/16 x 10 7/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Porter Sargent

Accession Number49.1739

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Signed Keisai Eisen ga
渓斎英泉画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

Inscriptions東洋子起義

Provenance1949, gift of Porter Sargent to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 8, 1949)