Object number1971.35.5
1971.35.5
Datec. 1793-1794
Artist
Kitagawa Utamaro
(Japanese, 1753-1806)
CultureJapanese
MediumWoodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color with mica on paper
DimensionsImage: 15 1/16 x 9 7/8 in. (38.26 x 25.08 cm)
Credit LineGift from the estate of Harriet Anderson, class of 1903
On View
Not on viewPeriod18th c (Edo period)
Classification(s)
SignedOn recto, off center near right margin, artist's signature in block: 歌麿筆 (Utamaro hitsu)
InscribedOn recto, upper right, poem in vertical tanzaku-shaped cartouche:
Noserarete
miru yū gao no
Hanaōgi
hito no kokoro ni
aki no kozareba
Attracted by her
face in the evening,
like a gourd flower in autumn,
no one can ever weary
of Hanaō gi’s beauty.
[Signed] Yanagihara Mukai
On recto, print title, in square cartouche:「扇屋内花扇 よしの たつた」(Hanaōgi of the Ōgiya, kamuro Yoshino and Tatsuta; Ōgiya uchi Hanaōgi, Yoshino, Tatsuta)
MarkingsOn recto, off center near right margin, artist's seal in block: three mountains and paulownia leaves.
Catalogue raisonnéAsano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #126; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #27.3, pl. 38; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 50.1.3; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #172; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #35
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