Wakoku of the Echizenya, from the series Thirty-six Poetic Immortals of the Pleasure Quarters (Kuruwa yatsushi Sanjûrokkasen)

「北楼略三十六哥仙　越前屋　和国」

Isoda Koryûsai (Japanese, 1735–1790)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1776–81 (An'ei 5–Tenmei 1)

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

Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25.4 x 18.8 cm (10 x 7 3/8 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.565

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hockley 2003, p. 215, #O-2-9

Signed Koryû ga
湖竜画

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross