Describe the characteristics of the Date in Eijudō Hibino at Seventy-one (Toyokuni I)'s Print details.
The ROM dates the print to c. 1799, which is in line with the data offered by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt. Both the Honolulu Museum of Art and the British Museum date the print slightly earlier at 1797-1798. The Art Institute of Chicago narrows the date to 1798.
Art historians are also divided in their estimates of the print's age. Clark believes the print to be from 1797-1798 based on the similarity of its signature to those on other works known to be from that period. Volker links it to "about 1790," while Newland describes the image as having been produced "in the 1790s."