Hosoda Eishi

Spirit Summoner; Wild Geese Returning Home (Maboroshi; Rakugan) (right) and A Thin Veil of Clouds; Clearing Weather (Usugumo; Seiran) (left), from the series Eight Views of The Tale of Genji in the Floating World (Ukiyo Genji hakkei)

1797–99

Dating

Date range

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Diptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

Dimensions

H. 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm); W. 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)

Collection no.

JP1222

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Hosoda Eishi. Spirit Summoner; Wild Geese Returning Home (Maboroshi; Rakugan) (right) and A Thin Veil of Clouds; Clearing Weather (Usugumo; Seiran) (left), from the series Eight Views of The Tale of Genji in the Floating World (Ukiyo Genji hakkei). Hosoda Eishi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1921. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.