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Kogiku of the Mizuguchiya as a Naive Young Girl (Oboko musume), from the series Gion Festival Costume Parade (Gion mikoshi arai nerimono sugata)


「祇園神輿洗 ねり物姿 おぼこ娘 水口や小きく」
Urakusai Nagahide (Japanese, active about 1805–1848)
Publisher: Yamasa (Japanese)
Publisher: Shimawa
Japanese
Edo period
1813 (Bunka 10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock/stencil print (kappazuri); ink on paper, with stenciled color
Dimensions Hosoban; 32.7 x 15 cm (12 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.754
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 123; Ujlaki and Nakade, "Gion nerimono prints revisited: The list," Andon 75 (2003), GN 1813-15, photo p. 32
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.754, 11.38810
京の祇園祭の行事の一つで、芸妓たちが仮装する練物(ねりもの)を描いたシリーズ。うぶな若い娘の姿に扮した水口屋(みずぐちや)の芸妓小菊(こぎく)。 -- 田辺 昌子KK
Signed Nagahide ga
長秀画
Marks Publishers' marks: Yamasa han, Shimawa han
画家の印章: なし
版元: 山佐 島和
改印: なし
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross