Modern Figures at Dawn on a Snowy Day (Imayō sugata yuki no akebono)
Artist
Ikeda Eisen
(Japanese, 1790–1848)
Publisherpublished by
Sanoya Kihei 佐野屋 喜兵衛 (Kikakudō 喜鶴堂)
(Japanese)
Date1830s
Mediumcolor woodblock print; vertical ōban triptych
Dimensionsōban triptych: 36 x 75.5 cm (14 3/16 x 29 ¾ in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineJohn Chandler Bancroft Collection
Object number1901.146
Descriptionoban triptychLabel TextThree gaily dressed women stand in the snow on the shore if Edo Bay to view the first sunrise of the year. The snow-clad buildings of the Benten Shrine are seen at the left
On View
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about 1822
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡 芳年
October 4, 1877
Utagawa Kunisada I 歌川 国貞 (Toyokuni III 三代 豊国)
mid- to late 1810s
Utagawa Kunisada I 歌川 国貞 (Toyokuni III 三代 豊国)
1863