Gentle-looking (Otonashisô): Boats on the River at Tsukuda Shinchi (Tsukuda Shinchi no irifune), from the series Twelve Views of Modern Beauties (Imayô bijin jûni kei)

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Gentle-looking (Otonashisô): Boats on the River at Tsukuda Shinchi (Tsukuda Shinchi no irifune), from the series Twelve Views of Modern Beauties (Imayô bijin jûni kei)

「今様美人十二景　おとなしそう」

Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1822–23 (Bunsei 5–6)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39 x 26.4 cm (15 3/8 x 10 3/8 in.)

Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Henry Adams

Accession Number20.138

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), #140; another print in the series: POLA Research Inst., Edo bijin no yosooi (2018), pp. 92-3

Signed Keisai Eisen ga
渓斎英泉画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

ProvenanceHenry Brooks Adams (b. 1838 - d. 1918), Washington, DC; 1920, gift of the estate of Henry Brooks Adams to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 22, 1920)