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Keisai Eisen (1790-1848) | In the Twelfth Month, Setsubun: Ainare of the Ebiya (Junigatsu, setsubun: Ebiya uchi Ainare | Edo period, 19th century

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Keisai Eisen (1790-1848)

In the Twelfth Month, Setsubun: Ainare of the Ebiya (Junigatsu, setsubun: Ebiya uchi AinareEdo period, 19th century


woodblock print, from the series Four Seasons in the Pleasure Quarters: Annual Events in the Yoshiwara (Kuruwa no shikishi Yoshiwara yoji), signed Keisai Eisen ga, censor's seal kiwame, published by Tsutaya

Juzaburo (Koshodo), circa 1821-23 


Vertical oban: 36.6 x 24.8 cm., 14⅜ x 9¾ in.

For another impression of the same print in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 11.17872, go to:

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/209888