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「浮世風俗美女競」酒を飲む芸者
Geisha Drinking Sake, from the series Customs of the Floating World: A Contest of Beautiful Women (Ukiyo fûzoku bijo kurabe)
「浮世風俗美女競」酒を飲む芸者
Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Other artist: Tani Bunchô (Japanese, 1763–1840)
Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô) (Japanese)
Other artist: Tani Bunchô (Japanese, 1763–1840)
Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1823–24 (Bunsei 6–7)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 37.8 x 26.1 cm (14 7/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Porter Sargent
Accession Number50.2310
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Edo-Tokyo Museum, Dai Ukiyo-e ten (2014), #220; Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), #37; another print in the series: Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 4, Victoria and Albert Museum I (1989), pl. 162
Signed
Keisai Eisen ga; Bunchô (on turtle painting inside cup)
渓斎英泉画
渓斎英泉画
Marks
Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極
改印：極
InscriptionsChinese poem: Hana o mite mata nomu, yotte fusu rakka no shitone
"Gazing at the flowers, I drink again and again; drunken, I sleep on a cushion of fallen blossoms"
「看花復飲酒 酔臥落花茵」
"Gazing at the flowers, I drink again and again; drunken, I sleep on a cushion of fallen blossoms"
「看花復飲酒 酔臥落花茵」