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Kikugawa Eizan 菊川英山

Three fashionable beauties enjoying the evening cool

Description

Maker

Kikugawa Eizan 菊川英山 (Japanese, 1787-1867
b. in Edo)

Title

Three fashionable beauties enjoying the evening cool

Period

Edo (Japanese period)

Year

ca. 1810

Medium

  • polychrome woodblock print

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Polychrome woodblock print

Materials

ink, color

Supports

  • paper

Geography

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Dimensions

Plate: 36 x 25.1 cm (14 3/16 x 9 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription verso (part A), bottom center in pencil: ICB19.1-.3; in a later hand, verso (part A), bottom right in pencil: 4.

Signature: Kikugawa Eizan hitsu

Seals: Censor's seal | kiwame

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Bequest of Isaac C. Bates

Object Number

13.1399C

Type

  • Prints

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Edo Culture II
Life in the Pleasure Quarters
Dec 16, 1994 – Mar 05, 1995
Women in Japanese Prints
Mar 05, 1993 – May 09, 1993
Courtesans of the Floating World
May 30, 1986 – Aug 30, 1986

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Kikugawa Eizan 菊川英山 (Japanese, 1787-1867
b. in Edo)
Yamada Shōjirō 山田屋庄次郎 (Japanese, 1850s), publisher
Three fashionable beauties enjoying the evening cool, ca. 1810
polychrome woodblock print
Plate: 36 x 25.1 cm (14 3/16 x 9 7/8 inches)
Bequest of Isaac C. Bates 13.1399C

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