Isoda Koryūsai (礒田湖龍斎) (artist )
Lovers standing on a pier embracing in the moonlight
ca 1774
4.7 in x 26.5 in (Overall dimensions) color woodblock print
Signed: Koryū ga (湖龍画)
Ritsumeikan University - b & w only
Art Institute of Chicago Two lovers on a boat landing with crows flying in front of a full moon rising above the clouds.
Allen Hockley in his book on Koryūsai lists this hashira-e as F63 on page 255. He notes that it is listed in Pins.
Illustrated in in black and white in The Japanese Pillar Print, Jacob Pins, Roger G. Sawers Publishing, 1982, plate 324, page 158. That one is listed as being from a collection in Haifa.
pillar print (hashira-e - 柱絵) (genre)