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Enjoying the Cool Air in a Garden


庭中の涼み
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1788–90 (Tenmei 8–Kansei 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.3 x 25.6 cm (15 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.625
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #40; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 4.3.2; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #23; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #C19, pl. CXXIII
DescriptionCenter sheet of incomplete triptych; 21.6358 is the right sheet.
Signed Utamaro ga
歌麿画
InscriptionsPoem, anonymous (Yomibito shirazu): Natsu nagara/ yuki no hata e no/ suzushisa yo/ koshiji ni orishi/ chijimi-katabira
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross