Image

RISDM 13-1388.tif

Keisai Eisen 渓斎英泉

Yamada school (Yamada ryu), Edo (Japanese period)

Description

Maker

Title

Yamada school (Yamada ryu)

Year

Edo (Japanese period)

Medium

ink, color

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Vertical ōban: 38.6 x 26.2 cm (15 3/16 x 10 5/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed: Keisai Eisen ga
Seals: Wakamatsuya Yoshiro (publisher), kiwame (censor)

Poem in the cartouche:

Hatsukari mo/ Yamada wo kake te/ kunikoto(or kumigoto) no/ kayoigeiko ya/ ko no matsukaze

Studying koto an act of filial piety, she rushes to a lesson with the koto master and hears the first wild geese and the wind through the pines

Signature: Keisai Eisen ga

Seals: Publisher's seal | Wakamatsu; censor's seal | kiwame

Marks: Inscription verso, bottom left: Eisen/580

Place

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Type

Credit

Bequest of Isaac C. Bates

Object Number

13.1388

About

Yamada school (Yamada ryu)
From the series, Pine Needles of Current Music (Imayō onkyoku matsu no ha)
今容音極松の葉
山田流

Signed: Keisai Eisen ga
Seals: Wakamatsuya Yoshiro (publisher), kiwame (censor)

Poem in the cartouche:

Hatsukari mo/ Yamada wo kake te/ kunikoto(or kumigoto) no/ kayoigeiko ya/ ko no matsukaze

Studying koto an act of filial piety, she rushes to a lesson with the koto master and hears the first wild geese and the wind through the pines

Signature: Keisai Eisen ga

Seals: Publisher's seal | Wakamatsu; censor's seal | kiwame

Marks: Inscription verso, bottom left: Eisen/580

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Use

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