Kitagawa Tsukimaro (喜多川月麿) (artist )
A traveling bijin on horseback pausing for a smoke
ca 1800 – 1810
9.875 in x 14.5 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Kikumaro hitsu (菊麿筆)
Publisher: Murataya Jirōbei
(Marks 359 - seal 08-098)
Censor's seal: kiwame
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - with no censor's seal
Bibliotheque Nationale - Hokusai Tokaidō print with similar riding contraption There is an interesting contrast between this copy in the Lyon Collection which carries the kiwame seal in the lower left corner and the copy in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston which shows no such seal.
Murataya Jirōbei (村田屋治郎兵衛) (publisher)
beautiful women (bijin-ga - 美人画) (genre)