The Story of Ikkyû and the Hell Courtesan (Ikkyû Jigoku dayû no hanashi), from the series Newly Selected Eastern Brocade Prints (Shinsen Azuma nishiki-e)

「新撰東錦絵　一休地獄太夫之話」

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)
Publisher: Tsunajima Kamekichi (Japanese)

Japanese

Meiji era

1886 (Meiji 19), February 1

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 35.4 × 47.5 cm (13 15/16 × 18 11/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of the Anne Gordon Keidel Trust of June 2016

Accession Number2016.1356a-b

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ing & Schaap, Beauty & Violence (1992), #55.9 (no photo); Ukiyo-e taikei 12 (1976), #158-9

Signed Yoshitoshi
芳年

Marks Blockcutter's mark: Enkatsu tô
Artist's seal: Yoshitoshi no in

ProvenanceAnne Gordon Keidel (d. 2016), West Newton, MA; 2016, bequest of Anne Gordon Keidel to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 9, 2016)