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「品川君姿八景 大仏の晩鐘 佐渡 哥うら おなしく 岩なみ」 （品川君競八景ヵ）
Evening Bell of the Great Buddha Temple (Daibutsu no banshô): Utaura and Iwanami of Sado (?), from the series Eight Views of the Elegant Courtesans of Shinagawa (Shinagawa kunshi hakkei)
「品川君姿八景 大仏の晩鐘 佐渡 哥うら おなしく 岩なみ」 （品川君競八景ヵ）
Attributed to: Kitao Shigemasa (Japanese, 1739–1820)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1780
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 37.6 x 24.6 cm (14 13/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1125
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Other prints in the series: TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 2 (1962), #s 1367 and 1368
DescriptionTwo other prints from the unsigned series are in the collection of the Tokyo National Museum, which reads the fourth character in the series title as "kurabe" rather than "sugata."
The mysterious blockcutter's mark also appears on a print by Torii Kiyohiro, dateable to 1760, in the Art Institute of Chicago: Gunsaulus, AIC cat. I (1955), p. 241, #18.
The mysterious blockcutter's mark also appears on a print by Torii Kiyohiro, dateable to 1760, in the Art Institute of Chicago: Gunsaulus, AIC cat. I (1955), p. 241, #18.
Signed
Unsigned
無款
無款
Marks
Blockcutter's mark: Tsûsen
彫師：通仙
彫師：通仙
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross