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Yamauba and Kintarô with a Kite Inscribed "Bear"


山姥と金太郎 凧
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Tsuruya Kinsuke (Sôkakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1800–03 (Kansei 12–Kyôwa 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39.3 x 26.3 cm (15 1/2 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1241
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #387; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 7, Musée Guimet II (1990), pl. 64; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #737; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 210.2.4
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross