Chôtensai EIJU
(Japan)
- Title
- Presentation (mitate) of the story of the courtesan Takao
- Other titles:
- Fishing
Untitled - Alternative title:
- Mitate Takao-dayû
- Place of origin
-
Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Year
- late 1790s
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodcut
- Dimensions
-
Ôban yoko-e: 25.4 x 38.5cm image; 25.5 x 39.0cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l., in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "Chôtensai Eiju ga [picture by Chôtensai Eiju] " . Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1961
- Accession number
- DO3.1961
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (1)
-
Jackie Menzies (Australia) (Author), The Floating World: Japan's world of transient pleasures, Sydney, 1994, not paginated. cat. no. C3
- Exhibition history (3)
-
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.
