BEAUTY AND DOG OF LUST (Keisai Eisen)
$550.00
Object: original Japanese woodblock print
Genre: ukiyo-e 浮世絵 pictures of the floating world
Artist: Keisai Eisen 渓斎英泉 (1790-1848), signed Keisai Eisen ga 渓斎英泉画
Print title: Snow 雪
Print subject: beauty and dog of lust in the snow (a reference to the Japanese Buddhist proverb: Though driven away, the dog of lust cannot be kept from coming back again 煩悩の犬は追えども去らず)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei 佐野屋喜兵衛 (Kikakudo 喜鶴堂)
Censor’s seal: kiwame 極
Material: washi 和紙 Japanese paper
Technique: nishiki-e 錦絵 multi-coloured woodblock printing
Year: ca. 1825
Condition: reasonable, many holes, wrinkles, restorations, backing
Dimensions: 22 x 33 cm
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