Returning To His Yashiki
Artist
Rekisentei Eiri
(Japanese, active 1790s–1820s)
Dateabout 1796
Mediumwoodblock print
Dimensions37.1 x 118.7 cm (14 5/8 x 46 3/4 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineJohn Chandler Bancroft Collection
Terms
Object number1901.59.2285
DescriptionThis mitate-e (likening picture) is a travesty of an actual scene. A young lord, apparently either a hatamoto (member of the Shogun's body guard) or the sone of a daimyo, is shown returningto the family yashiki (mansion) located between the outer and the inner moats of the Shogun's castle. Instead of men all of the attendants in his trainOn View
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