Enoshima Benzaiten Kaicho Nagisa

c. 1849

Bijinga were beautiful Japanese women celebrated in the "floating world" of ukiyo-e, a woodblock print genre. In Hiroshige's Enoshima Benzaiten Kaicho Nagisa, elaborately costumed women were depicted in colorful detail, venerating one of Japan's seven lucky gods. As the nineteenth century progressed, ukiyo-e artists began to individualize faces and features, as well as use western perspective.

Japan

Color woodblock print (triptych)

left panel: 14 1/2 in x 10 1/8 in; mat: 22 in x 36 in; right panel: 14 1/2 in x 10 1/8 in; middle panel: 14 5/8 in x 10 1/8 in

Gift of Mrs. Stanley. C. (Eleanor) Hughes

1946.001.004