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Amusements at the Height of Yoshiwara’s Niwaka Festival (Seirō niwaka zensei asobi)

ca. 1796
Not on view
The Niwaka Festival was held in the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter in the eighth month of each year and featured various spirited lively processions and performances by courtesans, teahouse and brothel owners, attendants, and other denizens of the Yoshiwara. The elderly male figure on the right with the distinctive profile is the celebrated Jōruri (Japanese narrative music) chanter Tomimoto Buzendayū II (1754–1822). Two employees of Yoshiwara brothels are dressed up as sellers of drums and earthenware cooking pans.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • 栄松斎長喜画 「青楼俄全盛遊」
  • Title: Amusements at the Height of Yoshiwara’s Niwaka Festival (Seirō niwaka zensei asobi)
  • Artist: Eishōsai Chōki (Japanese, active late 18th–early 19th century)
  • Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
  • Date: ca. 1796
  • Culture: Japan
  • Medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
  • Dimensions: Vertical ōban; 14 5/8 x 9 3/4 in. (37.1 x 24.8 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936
  • Object Number: JP2418
  • Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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