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「浮気四十八癖 畳算で言伝をするは女郎の癖」
The Courtesan's Habit of Spreading Rumors through Fortune Telling (Tatamizan de kotozuke suru wa jorô no kuse), from the series Forty-eight Mannerisms in the Floating World (Ukiyo yonjûhachi kuse)
「浮気四十八癖 畳算で言伝をするは女郎の癖」
Japanese
Edo period
1820s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 36.6 x 24.3 cm (14 7/16 x 9 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number17.3214.6
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/mishima_doo/folder/579344.html?m=lc
Other prints in the series: POLA Research Inst., Edo bijin no yosooi (2018), pp. 74-5; Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), #35
DescriptionTatamizan was a form of divination mainly practiced in the pleasure quarters, done by tossing objects such as hairpins or pipes on the tatami and interpreting the way they fell.
Signed
Keisai Eisen ga
渓斎英泉画
渓斎英泉画
Marks
Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極
改印：極