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Arai: Michinoku and Michiuta of the Maru-Ebiya, 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 見立よしはら五十三つゐ あら井 丸海老屋内 陸奥 みちうた」
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.54.187.3
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), #248; 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: 11.25562, *11.41524 (deaccessioned in 2012), RES.54.187.3

Album: RES.54.187.1-.38
Signed Keisai Eisen ga
渓斎英泉画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極