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Courtesans Viewing Cherry Blossoms: Komurasaki of the Kadotamaya, kamuro Hatsune and Shizue


桜下太夫揃 「角玉屋うち 小むらさき はつね しずえ」
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1786--87 (Tenmei 6--7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.8 x 25.2 cm (14 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.4870
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Someya, Chôbunsai Eishi mokuroku (Chiba, 2023), #4; Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #50 (complete triptych); Brandt, Hosoda Eishi (1977), fig. 154 (complete triptych), list no. 75; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #527
DescriptionCenter sheet of incomplete triptych. 11.14052 is the right sheet of the triptych.
Signed Eishi ga
栄之画
ProvenancePurchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from W. L. Keane collection (#191); December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.