Hosoda EISHI
(Japan 1756–1829)
- Title
- The fifth month
- Other titles:
- The fifth month from the series Five Festivals à la mode
- Alternative title:
- Fûryû Go Sekku
- Place of origin
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Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Year
- circa 1815-1842
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodcut
- Dimensions
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Ôban tate-e: 37.7 x 24.2cm image/sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed c.r., in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "Eishi zu [picture by Eishi]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1961
- Accession number
- DO2.1961
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (2)
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Jackie Menzies (Australia) (Author), The Floating World: Japan's world of transient pleasures, Sydney, 1994, not paginated. cat. no. M4
'The Floating World', The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003, 2003, 250 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (3)
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Purchases and Acquisitions for 1961, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Apr 1962–25 May 1962.
The Floating World: Japan's World of transient pleasures, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 25 May 1994–17 Jul 1994.
Beauty and Desire in Edo period Japan, National Gallery of Australia, 06 Jun 1998–09 Aug 1998.
