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
Not on view