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Early Summer Rain (Samidare no kei), from an untitled series of landscapes


「五月雨の景」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tōbei (Kinkōdō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1832 (Tenpô 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.8 x 34.9 cm (9 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1370
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Izzard, Kunisada's World (1993), #65/7; Ukiyo-e taikei 10 (1976), #25; Hillier, Vever cat. 3 (1976), #818
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1370, 21.6990
Signed Kôchôrô Kunisada ga
香蝶楼国貞画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross