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Otayo of the Fujiya, from an untitled series of famous beauties of Edo


江戸高名美人 「ふじやおた代」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Iwatoya Kisaburô (Eirindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1792–93 (Kansei 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical aiban; 32.7 x 24.9 cm (12 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14318
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #206.3, fig. 7; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), #62.3.3; other prints in the series: Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #s 120-122
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.