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新吉原大門口
The Main Gate, New Yoshiwara (Shin Yoshiwara Ômon-guchi)
新吉原大門口
Torii Kiyotada I (Japanese, active about 1720–1750)
Publisher: Urokogataya Magobei (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Sekine Shintarô (Japanese)
Publisher: Urokogataya Magobei (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Sekine Shintarô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1745 (Enkyô 2)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print; ink on paper, with hand-applied color
Dimensions
Horizontal double ôban; 43.3 x 64 cm (17 1/16 x 25 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—Chinese Expedition, 1923–24
Accession Number54.181
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #109; Kishi, Edo no enkin-hô (1994), fig. 71
DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.5677, 54.181
Signed
Eshi Torii Kiyotada hitsu
絵師鳥居清忠筆
絵師鳥居清忠筆
Marks
Blockcutter: Horikô Sekine Shintarô
彫師：彫工関根新太郎
彫師：彫工関根新太郎
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)