Red and Black Lacquer Water Bucket and a Cherry Branch Artist: Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)

Medium

Surimono, double ō-ban; polychrome woodblock print with gauffrage

Dimensions

sheet: 15 3/8 × 21 5/8 in. (39 × 55 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian, B.A. 1970

Accession Number

2018.116.9

Geography
Culture
Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Joan B. Mirviss (dealer), New York; sold to Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian, Koenigstein im Taunus, Germany, 2006 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2017–2018); given to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2018
Bibliography
  • Sadako Ohki and Adam Haliburton, The Private World of Surimono: Japanese Prints from the Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian Collection (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2020), 223, no. 75, ill
  • "Acquisitions July 1, 2017–June 30, 2018," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2018), 18
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Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts, surimono

Inscriptions

Shūchōdō Monoyana, a leader of Yomo-gawa\r\nFour Directions Group\r\n四方側\r\n\r\nPoet\r\nEast Capital; Shūchō-dō (東都 秋長堂)

Signed

Keisai; Sealed: Eisen (in a circle); Poets: Shūchōdō Monoyama (1761-1830) [of the Eastern Capital]
渓斎; 英泉(印)

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