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Keisai Eisen

Yamada school (Yamada ryu), 1830's

Description

Maker

  • Keisai Eisen, 1790-1848, Japanese
  • Wakamatsuya Yoshiro, Japanese, publisher

Title

Yamada school (Yamada ryu)

Year

1830's

Medium

Polychrome woodblock print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • ink,
  • color

Techniques

  • wood block,
  • woodcut

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

Vertical ōban: 38.6 x 26.2 cm (15 3/16 x 10 5/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed: Keisai Eisen ga
Seals: Wakamatsuya Yoshirō (publisher), kiwame (censor)

Poem in the cartouche:

Hatsukari mo/ Yamada wo kake te/ kunikoto(or kumigoto) no/ kayoigeiko ya/ ko no matsukaze

Studying koto an act of filial piety, she rushes to a lesson with the koto master and hears the first wild geese and the wind through the pines

Place

Japan; Tokyo

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Bequest of Isaac C. Bates

Object Number

13.1388

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Women of the Floating World

November 9, 1990 - January 6, 1991

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Yamada school (Yamada ryu) with the accession number of 13.1388. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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