Chōkōsai Eishō (鳥高斎栄昌) (artist )
Two women reading a love letter - a parody of the Act 7 from the Chūshingura
ca 1790
4.5 in x 23.625 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Eishō ga (栄昌画)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Chūsuke
(Marks 590 - seal 05-001)
Ritsumeikan University - black and white
The Art Institute of Chicago
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the University of California Illustrated in:
1) in in black and white in The Japanese Pillar Print, Jacob Pins, Roger G. Sawers Publishing, 1982, page 312, #879.
Marks refers to the publisher of this print as Yamaguchiya Chūsuke, but Ritsumeikan University refer to it as Yamaguchiya Chūemon (山口屋忠右衛門). The British Museum gives the same name as Marks. The Tokyo Metropolitan Library offers both names.
2) black and white illustration in the Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum: Ukiyo-e Prints (2), #s 2308 and 2309. (This print was not illustrated online as of November, 2019.)
pillar print (hashira-e - 柱絵) (genre)
beautiful woman picture (bijin-ga - 美人画) (genre)
Chūshingura (忠臣蔵 - 47 Rōnin) (genre)
mitate-e (見立て絵) (genre)
Yamaguchiya Chūsuke (山口屋忠助) (publisher)