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No. 17, Miyako no Yoshika Recites a Poem at the Rashômon Gate (Rashômon ni Miyako no Yoshika shi o ginzu), from the series Sketches from the History of Greast Japan (Dai Nihonshi ryaku zue)


「大日本史略図会 十七 羅生門に都良香詩を吟ず」
Adachi Ginkô (Japanese, 1853–1902)
Japanese
Meiji era
1885 (Meiji 18)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal chûban; 17.5 × 23.7 cm (6 7/8 × 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Anne Gordon Keidel Trust of June 2016
Accession Number2016.1474
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Other prints in the series: Waseda db 201-2927, etc.
DescriptionPublished with two horizontal chûban designs on each vertical ôban sheet, with accompanying texts in the same format, presumably intended to be cut apart and reassembled as a picturebook.
Signed Adachi Ginkô ga
安達吟光画
ProvenanceJustine Frances Lewis Keidel (d. 2003), Baltimore, MD; 2003, bequeathed by Justine Frances Lewis Keidel to her daughter, Anne Gordon Keidel (d. 2016), West Newton, MA; 2016, bequest of Anne Gordon Keidel to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 9, 2016)