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The Hour of the Dragon (Tatsu no koku), from the series The Twelve Hours in the Yoshiwara (Seirô jûni toki tsuzuki)


「青楼十二時 続 辰ノ刻」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1794 (Kansei 6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.2 x 25.2 cm (15 1/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14573
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Golden Age (2010), #63; Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #154; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #35.5; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 129.2.1; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #191; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #60
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.14573, 21.6527
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.