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Pleasure Boats on the Sumida River under Shin-Ôhashi Bridge


新大橋橋下の涼み船
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Shûeidô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1792 (Kansei 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban pentaptych; 38.5 x 128.2 cm (15 3/16 x 50 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.7596-600
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Mus., Chôbunsai Eishi ten (2023), #20; Someya, Chôbunsai Eishi mokuroku (2023), #59; MFA, Golden Age (2010), #121; Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #95.1-5?; US 6 (AIC 3, 1978), pls. 72-6; Brandt, Hosoda Eishi (1977), fig. 219, list no. 124
DescriptionPentaptych, left to right: 21.7596, 21.7597, 21.7598, 21.7599, 21.7600
Pentaptych co-published by Izumiya Ichibei and Shûeidô. Shûeidô publisher's mark on far left sheet only; Izumiya Ichibei publisher's mark on far right sheet only.
MFA impressions: 11.14118VR (complete pentaptych: 11.14118 + 11.21179-82), 11.14117 (center left sheet only), 11.14025 (center right sheet only), 21.7596-600 (complete pentaptych)
Signed Eishi ga (on each sheet)
栄之画
ProvenanceFormerly in the Kobayashi collection; 1913 purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.