Rain of the Geisha (Geisha no ame), from the series Eight Views of the Floating World (Ukiyo hakkei)

「浮世八景　芸者の雨」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1802 (Kyôwa 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Hashira-e; 61.2 x 11.5 cm (24 1/16 x 4 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1279

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #680.1; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 232.1.1; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #766

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks No censor's seal
改印：なし

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross