Night Snow at Tamachi on the Yoshiwara Embankment (Yoshiwara dote Tamachi yoru no yuki), from an untitled posthumous series
清親風景真画 「吉原土手田町夜之雪」
Japanese
Shôwa-era edition of Meiji-era design
1929 (Shôwa 4)
Artist Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japanese, 1847–1915), Publisher Matsuki Heikichi (Daikokuya) (Japanese)
Catalogue Raisonné
The series: Smith, Kiyochika (exh. cat., Santa Barbara, 1988), p. 116 (this design not illustrated)
Dimensions
Horizontal ôban; 27 × 34.6 cm (10 5/8 × 13 5/8 in.)
Accession Number
35.1926
Medium or Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Not On View
Collections
Classifications
From a set of 26 designs produced in 1929 by the Association for the Distribution of Kiyochika’s Genuine Landscapes (Kiyochika fûkei shinga haifukai), organized by Matsuki Heikichi to publish original designs created by Kiyochika before his death in 1915.
The individual titles are on the backs of the prints.
Signed
Kiyochika
清親
Markings
Artist's seals: Kiyo, Chika
Provenance
1935, purchased by the MFA from Mrs. Wilmont R. Evans, Boston. (Accession Date: December 5, 1935)
Credit Line
Chinese and Japanese Special Fund