Suma, from the series "A Fashionable Parody of the Tale of Genji (Furyu yatsushi Genji)"

Provenance

Charles Jacquin, Paris; sold, Wapole Galleries, New York, Jan. 20–22, 1921, to Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.

Suma, from the series "A Fashionable Parody of the Tale of Genji (Furyu yatsushi Genji)"

Chôbunsai Eishi

c. 1789/94

Accession Number

86951

Medium

Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych (left sheet: 1925.3103)

Dimensions

38.7 × 25.4 cm (15 1/4 × 10 in.)

Classification

woodblock print

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection