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Hana no en, from the series Genji in Fashionable Modern Guise (Fûryû yatsushi Genji)


「風流やつし源氏 花の宴」
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1789–90 (Kansei 1–2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 34.4 x 49 cm (13 9/16 x 19 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Nellie Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter
Accession Number34.337-8
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Someya, Chôbunsai Eishi mokuroku (2023), #40; Nagata et al, The New York and New Jersey Ukiyo-e Collection (1997), #42 (R only); Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #82.3; Brandt, Hosoda Eishi (1977), fig. 149, list #51 (R), and fig. 140, list #35 (C)
DescriptionDiptych (two left sheets of incomplete triptych): 34.337 (right), 34.338 (left)

MFA impressions: 21.7601-3 (complete triptych), 34.337-8 (two left sheets only)
Signed Eishi ga (on each sheet)
栄之画
Provenance1934, bequest of Nellie Parney Carter to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 4, 1934)