The Burke Collection
Scenes of Pleasures at the Height of Spring (全盛季春遊戯)
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283-1

Artist

Chōbunsai Eishi

(鳥文斎栄之; 1756–1829)

Catalogue information

Edo period

Handscroll; ink and color on silk

30.8 x 860 cm (12 1/8 in. x 28 ft. 2 5/8 in.)

Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Literature

Swinton et al. 1995, p. 143, no. 9.
Swinton, Elizabeth de Sabato, Kazue Edamatsu Campbell, Liza Crihfield Dalby, and Mark Oshima [Swinton et al.]
1995
The Women of the Pleasure Quarter: Japanese Paintings and Prints of the Floating World. Exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum; Equitable Gallery, New York; and Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. New York: Hudson Hills Press.

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See also

This artwork was published as catalogue entry 283 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.

Additional details

D283-1
D283-1

Signature

[at end of scroll] Painted by Chōbunsai Eishi

Seal

[at end of scroll] Eishi