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The Skit "Hana no Iroka Itazura Musume," from the series Entertainments of the Niwaka Festival in the Yoshiwara in Full Swing (Seirô Niwaka zensei asobi)


「青楼俄全盛遊 花色香徒娘(はなのいろかいたつらむすめ)」
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Yama-Shin (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1812 (Bunka 9), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 34.1 x 23.9 cm (13 7/16 x 9 7/16 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 Number54.333
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The series: Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), list #57 (this design not listed); another print in the series: cat. no. 92
Signed Eizan hitsu
英山筆
Marks Censor's seals: kiwame, Murataya Jirobei
改印:極、邑二(村田屋治朗兵衛)
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)