Koto from the series The Six Arts in Fashionable Guise
c. 1793–96
Chōbunsai Eishi
Chōbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Japanese Art
Koto from the series The Six Arts in Fashionable Guise, c. 1793–96. Chōbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829). Color woodblock print; ink and color on paper; sheet: 36.6 x 25 cm (14 7/16 x 9 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.301 Chinese classical education consisted of the Six Arts: performing rites, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and mathematics. The Chinese qin, a stringed musical instrument in the zither family, customarily symbolizes the art of music. In this print a similar Japanese instrument, the koto, replaces the qin. The fashionable Japanese entertainer playing it stands in for an accomplished Chinese scholar.
- Maker/Artist
- Hosoda Eishi
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- Color woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 36.6 x 25 cm (14 7/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signature: Eishi zu Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eiju han, emblem) Censorship Seal: kiwame
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1985.301
- Credit Line
- The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
- Exhibitions
- A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection, Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - September 2016-January 2017, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1988: A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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