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Preparing New Year Decorations


正月準備
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1789 (Tenmei 9/Kansei 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (key block print, kôgôzuri); ink on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 34.6 x 25.1 cm (13 5/8 x 9 7/8 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 Number54.340
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Someya, Chôbunsai Eishi mokuroku (Chiba, 2023), #217
DescriptionRight sheet of incomplete triptych.
MFA impressions: 11.14089 (center sheet), 54.340 (right sheet)
Left sheet: TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 2 (1962), #2235
Signed Chôbun
鳥文
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)