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大奥の女中 下 （池田晃淵作）
Courtiers Watching a Butterfly Dance, frontispiece illustration from Vol. 3 of the book Ôoku no jochû (The Ladies-in-waiting of the Shogun's Palace)
大奥の女中 下 （池田晃淵作）
Tomioka Eisen (Japanese, 1864–1905)
Japanese
Meiji era
1894 (Meiji 27)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
21.9 × 29.7 cm (8 5/8 × 11 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Anne Gordon Keidel Trust of June 2016
Accession Number2016.1414
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CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Yamada, Mokuhan kuchi-e sôran (2005), p. 124, photo p. 315
DescriptionA historical study of the late Edo period by Ikeda Kôen (dates not found).
Signed
(seal only)
Marks
Artist's seal: Eisen
ProvenanceAnne Gordon Keidel (d. 2016), West Newton, MA; 2016, bequest of Anne Gordon Keidel to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 9, 2016)