Woman Holding a Fan, from the series Customs Compared to Poems from the Anthology Gogenshû (Gogenshû fûzoku kurabe)

「五元集風俗くらへ」　団扇を持つ美人

Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.3 x 23.4 cm (13 7/8 x 9 3/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number17.3210.1

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), list #330-1? (no photo)

DescriptionThe anthology, compiled in 1747, collects the work of the noted haikai poet Takarai Kikaku (aka Enomoto Kikaku, 1661-1707).

Signed Keisai Eisen ga
渓斎英泉画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極