• The courtesan Senju of the Izumiya (和泉屋内泉壽) from the series <i>Eight Views of the Shin-Yoshiwara</i> (Shin-Yoshiwara Hakkei - 新吉原八景) - <i>Returning Sails at San'yabori</i> (<i>San'yabori no kihan</i> - 三谷堀の帰帆)
The courtesan Senju of the Izumiya (和泉屋内泉壽) from the series <i>Eight Views of the Shin-Yoshiwara</i> (Shin-Yoshiwara Hakkei - 新吉原八景) - <i>Returning Sails at San'yabori</i> (<i>San'yabori no kihan</i> - 三谷堀の帰帆)
The courtesan Senju of the Izumiya (和泉屋内泉壽) from the series <i>Eight Views of the Shin-Yoshiwara</i> (Shin-Yoshiwara Hakkei - 新吉原八景) - <i>Returning Sails at San'yabori</i> (<i>San'yabori no kihan</i> - 三谷堀の帰帆)
The courtesan Senju of the Izumiya (和泉屋内泉壽) from the series <i>Eight Views of the Shin-Yoshiwara</i> (Shin-Yoshiwara Hakkei - 新吉原八景) - <i>Returning Sails at San'yabori</i> (<i>San'yabori no kihan</i> - 三谷堀の帰帆)
The courtesan Senju of the Izumiya (和泉屋内泉壽) from the series <i>Eight Views of the Shin-Yoshiwara</i> (Shin-Yoshiwara Hakkei - 新吉原八景) - <i>Returning Sails at San'yabori</i> (<i>San'yabori no kihan</i> - 三谷堀の帰帆)
The courtesan Senju of the Izumiya (和泉屋内泉壽) from the series <i>Eight Views of the Shin-Yoshiwara</i> (Shin-Yoshiwara Hakkei - 新吉原八景) - <i>Returning Sails at San'yabori</i> (<i>San'yabori no kihan</i> - 三谷堀の帰帆)
The courtesan Senju of the Izumiya (和泉屋内泉壽) from the series <i>Eight Views of the Shin-Yoshiwara</i> (Shin-Yoshiwara Hakkei - 新吉原八景) - <i>Returning Sails at San'yabori</i> (<i>San'yabori no kihan</i> - 三谷堀の帰帆)
The courtesan Senju of the Izumiya (和泉屋内泉壽) from the series <i>Eight Views of the Shin-Yoshiwara</i> (Shin-Yoshiwara Hakkei - 新吉原八景) - <i>Returning Sails at San'yabori</i> (<i>San'yabori no kihan</i> - 三谷堀の帰帆)

Keisai Eisen (渓斎英泉) (artist 1790 – 1848)

The courtesan Senju of the Izumiya (和泉屋内泉壽) from the series Eight Views of the Shin-Yoshiwara (Shin-Yoshiwara Hakkei - 新吉原八景) - Returning Sails at San'yabori (San'yabori no kihan - 三谷堀の帰帆)

Print


ca 1821 – 1822
10.25 in x 15 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese color woodblock print
Signed: Keisai Eisen ga (渓斎 英泉画)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jūzaburō (Marks 555 - seal 03-002)
Seal: kiwame
Google maps - Yoshiwara Shrine - one of the only signs of where this famous district was
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - another print from this series published by Tsutaya Kichizō
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - an 1817 Shigenobu I print of Senju of the Izumiya The courtesan Senju is dressed in a beautiful kimono decorated with gourds and autumn leaves - possibly ivy, see the delicate tendrils - overlaying a trellis like pattern. She is sitting on a bench which has sliding drawers on the front decorated with large peonies. When freshly printed the effect must have been stunning. Nonetheless, the design still speaks well for itself even after nearly 200 years.

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Inset on top: "San'yabori no Kihan" boats sailing back to San'yabori.

Mikhail Uspensky in his book on Hiroshige's 100 Views of Edo wrote: "In the Edo period it was customary to approach Yoshiwara by water. You could take a hired boat and turn from the Sumidagawa into the Sanyabori canal which took you almost to your destination. You could disembark earlier, by the Imadobashi bridge, which stood at the meeting-point of river and canal, to make your way to Yoshiwara on foot or in a palanquin along the Nihon-zutsu-mi ('Japan Dyke') that ran along the Sanyabori."

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Illustrated in color in 浮世絵師溪斎英泉, 千葉市美術館 (Keisai Eisen: Artist of the Floating World, Chiba City Museum, 2012, #46, p. 71.
beautiful women (bijin-ga - 美人画) (genre)
Tsutaya Jūzaburō (蔦屋重三郎) (publisher)
landscape prints (fūkeiga 風景画) (genre)