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Keisai Eisen 渓斎英泉

Yamada school (Yamada ryu)

Description

Maker

Keisai Eisen 渓斎英泉 (Japanese, 1790-1848, b. in Edo)
Wakamatsuya Yoshiro (Japanese), publisher

Title

Yamada school (Yamada ryu)
From the series, Pine Needles of Current Music (Imayō onkyoku matsu no ha)
今容音極松の葉
山田流

Period

Edo (Japanese period)

Year

1830s

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

ink, color

Supports

Geography

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

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 Yoshiro (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

Signature: Keisai Eisen ga

Seals: Publisher's seal | Wakamatsu; censor's seal | kiwame

Marks: Inscription verso, bottom left: Eisen/580

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Bequest of Isaac C. Bates

Object Number

13.1388

Type

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Women of the Floating World
Nov 09, 1990 – Jan 06, 1991

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Tombstone

Keisai Eisen 渓斎英泉 (Japanese, 1790-1848, b. in Edo)
Wakamatsuya Yoshiro (Japanese), publisher
Yamada school (Yamada ryu); From the series, Pine Needles of Current Music (Imayō onkyoku matsu no ha); 今容音極松の葉; 山田流, 1830s
Polychrome woodblock print
Vertical ōban: 38.6 x 26.2 cm (15 3/16 x 10 5/16 inches)
Bequest of Isaac C. Bates 13.1388

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