The Shrine of Benzaiten at Shinobazu (Shinobazu Benzaiten), from the series Visiting the Shrines of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune in Edo (Edo Shichifukujin mairi)

「江都七福神まいり　しのばず弁財天」

Torii Kiyomasa (Japanese, 1776–1817)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1792 (Kansei 4)

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

Dimensions Vertical chûban diptych; 25 x 18.8 cm (9 13/16 x 7 3/8 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Langenbach in memory of Charles Hovey Pepper

Accession Number54.1506-7

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #C1, pl. CXXI; the right sheet of the triptych: Ukiyo-e taisei 10 (1930), #405

DescriptionDiptych (two left sheets of triptych): 54.1506 (left), 54.1507 (right)

Signed Torii Kiyonaga segare Kiyomasa ga (on each sheet)
鳥居清長倅清政画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

Provenance1954, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Langenbach to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 9, 1954)