Print from Women Resting in the Votive Picture Hall at Asakusa
Chōbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
early 1790s
- Medium
- woodblock print from a triptych; ink and color on paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 39.8 x 26.1 cm (15 11/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This print, the right print from a triptych of which the museum has only the left and right, shows people looking at votive plaques called ema hanging near the ceiling of a hall where tea is served to visitors.
