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A Modern Spring View (Tôsei haru no nagame): Courtesans Takihashi (R), Takiaya (C), and Takigawa (L) of the Kuki-rô


「当せい春のながめ 久喜楼滝橋」 「久喜楼滝綾」 「久喜楼滝川」
Utagawa Yoshiiku (Japanese, 1833–1904)
Publisher: Kagaya Kichiemon (Kichibei) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Koizumi Minokichi (Hori Mino) (Japanese, 1833–1906)
Japanese
Edo period
1861 (Man'en 2/Bunkyû 1), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.9 × 75.1 cm (14 1/2 × 29 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession Number00.1330-2
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Konishi, Nishiki-e Bakumatsu Meiji no rekishi 2 (1977), p. 137
DescriptionTriptych: 00.1330 (left), 00.1331 (right), 00.1332 (center)
Signed Yoshiiku ga (on each sheet)
芳幾画
Marks Censor's seal: Chicken 1 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Horikô Mino
改印:酉正改
彫師:彫工巳の
ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 05, 1900)