EIZAN KIKUGAWA 菊川英山 (1787–1867)

Signature: Kikukawa Eizan hitsu Date: c 1810-1820 Condition: excellent impression, some fading, soiling at lower margin, faint horizontal creases Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size Kakemono (73,5 x 24,4 cm)

Series: Furyu Mu Tamagawa (Fashionable Six Jewel Rivers) Signature: Kiku Eizan hitsu Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendo) Censor’s seal and seal of date: kiwame, Yamaguchiya Tôbei, 1812 (Bunka 9), 6th month Condition: excellent impression, vibrant colors, right margin slightly trimmed, some soling at lower right corner Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size Oban (27,1 x 24,9 cm)

Signature: attributed to Eizan, no signature as common with shunga Date: ca. 1820 Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: horizontal Ôban (25,8 x 37,6 cm)

Signature: Kikukawa Eizan hitsu Publisher: Yamadaya Shôjirô Censor's seal and seal of date: kiwame, 1814 (Bunka 11) eight month Condition: excellent impression, vibrant colors, slight rubbing at lower margin, restored wormhole close to lower margin Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size Oban (39 x 26,5 cm)

(Evening at the Ryogoku Bridge in Edo) Signature: Eizan hitsu Publisher: Kawaguchiya Uhe Censor's Seal and Seal of Date: Hama Ko (Hamamatsu Kosuke), Bunka 8.8 (1811) Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size Oban (36,4 x 25,6 cm)

Series: Azuma sugata Genji awase (Eastern Figures Matched with the Tale of Genji) Signature: Kikukawa Eizan hitsu Publisher: Mikawaya Den'emon Censor's seal and Date: kiwame, Bunsei 1–6 (about 1818–23) Condition: excellent impression, vibrant colors, slight rubbing at lower left corner, faint soling here and there, tiny restored binding holes Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: Ôban (36,4 x 25 cm)

Series: Tatoegusa fûzoku awase (Comparisons of Representative Customs) Signature: Kikukawa Eizan hitsu Publisher: Iwatoya Kisaburô (Eirindô) Censor’s Seal: kiwame, Igaya Kinbei Date: 1814 (Bunka 11), 9th month Condition: fading, some thinned areas slight rubbing Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: Ôban (37,3 x 24,3 cm)

Signature: Kikugawa Eizan hitsu Date: ca. 1810 Condition: beautiful impression; slight fading but still beautiful colors; some horizontal creases Vertical Diptych (both sheets fixed together 75,4 x 24,7 cm)

Signature: Kikugawa Eizan hitsu Publisher: Kawaguchiya Uhei (1800s – 1852) Censor’s Seal: kiwame Condition: Colors faded, some thinning, some dirt marks Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: Ôban (38,1 x 25,2 cm)

Signature:Eizan hitsu Date: around 1810 Condition: Color loss, slight toning on backside Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: Hashira-e (60,5 x 10 cm)

Series: Fûryû bijin ikebana awase (Fashionable Beauties Matched with Flower Arrangements) Signature: Kikukawa Eizan hitsu Date: Edo Period (about 1820ies) Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: Oban

First sheet of a five-sheet sequence Publisher: Sanoki Censor's Seal: Kiwame Date: about 1824-29 Condition: fine, early coloring, paper without damage Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: Ôban (38,4 x 25,8 cm)

Series: Fûryû onna rokkasen (Fashionable Female Six Poetic Immortals) Signature: Eizan hitsu Publisher: Ezakiya Kichibei Censor’s Seal and Seal of Date: kiwame waka, Bunka 8 (1811) Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: Ôban

Signature: Kikukawa Eizan hitsu Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi Cencor's Seal and Seal of Date: kiwame, Yamaguchi Tobei (1812-15) Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size Ôban

Signature: Kikukawa Eizan hitsu Date: Edo Period (1603 - 1868) Original Japanese Woodblock Print

no Signature, no Publisher’s Seal (common practice with shunga) Also part of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: horizontal Ôban (26,3 x 38,2 cm)