Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳) (artist 11/15/1797 – 03/05/1861)
View of Enoshima and Fuji from Shichirigahama (Shichiri gahama yori Enoshima no tokei - 七里ヶ浜より江の島乃遠景) - center panel of a triptych
1847 – 1852
9.75 in x 14.25 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Censor seals: Mera and Murata
Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
British Museum - two of the panels from a later edition
Fujisawa Ukiyo-e Museum - the full triptych
Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna - left-hand panel of this triptych with the publisher's seal This is the center panel of a triptych by Kuniyoshi. One can tell, from this image alone, what a successful outing these women and children have had. The woman who is standing up is holding a large lobster, an ebi, in her right hand. The basket she is holding with her left hand has fish in it. The woman who is stooping down is looking back at the other woman and offering her a shell, possibly an oyster.
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The publisher is probably Tsutaya Umejirō (蔦屋梅次郎), based on the seal of left left-hand panel of the triptych.
beautiful women (bijin-ga - 美人画) (genre)
landscape prints (fūkeiga 風景画) (genre)
boshi-e (母子絵) (genre)
Historical - Social - Ephemera (genre)
Tsutaya Umejirō (蔦屋梅次郎) (publisher)
Mount Fuji (富士山) (genre)