Mishima: Nanahito of the Sugata-Ebiya, from the series A Tôkaidô Board Game of Courtesans: Fifty-three Pairings in the Yoshiwara (Keisei dôchû sugoroku/Mitate Yoshiwara gojûsan tsui [no uchi])

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Mishima: Nanahito of the Sugata-Ebiya, from the series A Tôkaidô Board Game of Courtesans: Fifty-three Pairings in the Yoshiwara (Keisei dôchû sugoroku/Mitate Yoshiwara gojûsan tsui [no uchi])

「契情道中双六　見立よしハら五十三つゐ　三嶋　姿海老屋内　七人」

Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1821–23 (Bunsei 4–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.2 x 24.9 cm (14 1/4 x 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number17.3214.15

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), #228 (Tsukasa); Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 4, Victoria and Albert Museum I (1989), pl. 160 (with name Nanahito of the Sugata-Ebiya)

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.25571 (Tsukasa of the Ôgiya), 11.41514 (Tsukasa of the Ôgiya), 17.3214.15 (Nanahito of the Sugata-Ebiya)

Signed Keisai Eisen ga
渓斎英泉画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極