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Fuji no uraba, from the series Genji in Fashionable Modern Guise (Fûryû yatsushi Genji)


「風流やつし源氏」 藤裏葉
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1791–94 (Kansei 3–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37.6 x 74.1 cm (14 13/16 x 29 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.4856-8
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Someya, Chôbunsai Eishi mokuroku (Chiba, 2023), #42; Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #82.9; Brandt, Hosoda Eishi (1977), fig. 190, list no. 55; Ukiyo-e taikei 6 (1975), #s 137-9; the series: Marks et al., Genji's World (2012), list #G008
DescriptionTriptych: 21.4856 (right), 21.4857 (center), 21.4858 (left)

MFA impressions: *11.14046 (right sheet only; deaccessioned in 2012), 11.14134-6, 21.4856-8
Signed Eishi ga (on each sheet)
栄之画
Marks Collector's seal: Hayashi Tadamasa
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.