Women Playing Music on a Boat – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Advanced Search

Advanced Search

Women Playing Music on a Boat

Women Playing Music on a Boat

美人船中管絃図

Chôkôsai Eishô (Japanese, active 1780–1800)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Chûemon (Chûsuke) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37.7 x 74.3 cm (14 13/16 x 29 1/4 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.7642-4

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishô list, #45

DescriptionTriptych: 21.7642 (left), 21.7643 (center), 21.7644 (right)

Signed Eishô ga (on each sheet)
栄昌画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

ProvenanceSpring 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.