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Three Skits: The Dancing Invocation of Buddha (Odori Nenbutsu), The Flowery Waterfall and the Village of Caring for the Aged (Hana no taki sato no yôrô), The Textured Glaze and the Hometown Brocade (Hana kairage kokyô no nishiki), from the series Entertainments of the Niwaka Festival in the Yoshiwara in Full Swing (Seirô Niwaka zensei asobi)


「踊り念仏」 「花の滝里の養老」 「花貝らげ故郷の錦」  「青楼俄全盛遊」
Eishôsai Chôki (Japanese, active about 1780–1810)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1789–1801 (Kansei era)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.3 x 24.8 cm (15 1/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Asiatic Curator's Fund
Accession Number53.176
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mann, Sixty Years (2021), #79; another print from the same series: Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 12, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin (1988), pl. 100
Signed Chôki ga
長喜画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
Provenance1953, purchased by the MFA from an unidentified source. (Accession Date: March 12, 1953)