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Asian Art
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Explore image in Artist: Ichirakutei Eisui, Japanese, active ca. 1790–1823
The Elopement of O-Some and Hisamatsu: Heroes and heroines of Joruri Puppet Numbers
ca. 1797
Polychrome woodblock print
sheet: 14 3/4 × 9 9/16 in. (37.5 × 24.3 cm)
Frances Gaylord Smith Collection
1972.32.12
Geography:
Japan
Status:
Culture:
Japanese
Period:
Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification:
Works on Paper - Prints
Provenance:
Frances Gaylord Smith (Mrs. George T. Smith) Collection; by descent to nephew Gaylord Donnelley (1910–1992) and Dorothy Ranney Donnelley (1910–2002); loaned in 1969, and given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1972
Bibliography:
George J. Lee, Edo Culture in Japanese prints, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1972), 12–13, ill.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
