Asakusa Kanzeon Temple

Catalogued by the Art Institute of Chicago with a date of 1932 and an attribution to Eishō, this print of Asakusa Kanzeon Temple — the temple to the bodhisattva Kannon at Sensō-ji, the great religious and pilgrimage center of northeastern Edo/Tokyo — belongs visibly to the twentieth-century shin-hanga tradition rather than to the late-Kansei bijin-ga in which the historical Chōkōsai Eishō worked. As with the Kingfisher on Snowladden Reeds, the museum record evidently reflects a posthumous use of the signature, a homonymous later artist, or an inscription preserved at face value. The work is listed here for catalogue completeness; collectors should weigh the date and subject against Eishō's documented late-1790s output.