Tsuchiyama: Meizan of the Chôjiya, from the series A Tôkaidô Board Game of Courtesans: Fifty-three Pairings in the Yoshiwara (Keisei dôchû sugoroku/Mitate Yoshiwara gojûsan tsui [no uchi])

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Tsuchiyama: Meizan of the Chôjiya, from the series A Tôkaidô Board Game of Courtesans: Fifty-three Pairings in the Yoshiwara (Keisei dôchû sugoroku/Mitate Yoshiwara gojûsan tsui [no uchi])

「契情道中双六　見立吉原五十三対　土山　丁字屋内　名山」

Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1821–23 (Bunsei 4–6)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38 x 25.5 cm (14 15/16 x 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—MFA Chinese Expedition, 1923-24

Accession NumberRES.54.187.1

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), #265; another print in the series (Mishima): Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 4, Victoria and Albert Museum I (1989), pl. 160

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.25546, *11.41521 (deaccessioned in 2012), RES.54.187.1

Album: RES.54.187.1-.38

Signed Keisai Eisen ga
渓斎英泉画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極