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Details
- Other Title
- The fifth month from the series Five Festivals à la mode
- Alternative title
- Fûryû Go Sekku
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Date
- circa 1815-1842
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
- 37.7 x 24.2 cm
- Signature & date
Signed c.r., in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "Eishi zu [picture by Eishi]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1961
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- DO2.1961
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Chobunsai Eishi
Works in the collection
- Share
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1961, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Apr 1962–25 May 1962
The Floating World: Japan's World of transient pleasures, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 May 1994–17 Jul 1994
Beauty and Desire in Edo period Japan, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 06 Jun 1998–09 Aug 1998
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Jackie Menzies, The Floating World: Japan's world of transient pleasures, Sydney, 1994, not paginated. cat. no. M4
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'The Floating World', Sydney, 2003, 250 (colour illus.).
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Provenance
Appleton & Gelting Collection, 11 Feb 1936
R.G. McNair Scott, pre Apr 1960, Australia, purchased by Mr C Norris for the Art Gallery of New South Wales from the sale of Japanese prints and sword furniture from the collection of RG McNair Scott. Glendining & Co, London, 11 April 1960, lot 45.
