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「女風俗品さだめ 手習の師」 「女風俗品さだめ 囲」
Calligraphy Teacher (Tenarai no shi) (right), Kept Woman (Kakoi) (left), from the book Comparisons of the Customs of Women (Onna fûzoku shinasadame)
「女風俗品さだめ 手習の師」 「女風俗品さだめ 囲」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1795 (Kansei 7)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (key block); ink on paper
Dimensions
Two vertical yotsugiri (quarter ôban) designs on uncut horizontal chûban sheet; 20.3 x 28.1 cm (8 x 11 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21690
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
http://togetter.com/li/905917; Collier-Suzuki, Complete Prints of Utamaro (2009), #s 115.13 and 115.12
DescriptionJoint image: 11.21691 (top), 11.21690 (bottom).
Signed
Utamaro ga (on each design)
歌麿画
歌麿画
Inscriptions歌麿画 女風俗品さだめ 手習の師
たゞにや手と云へバ物書く事と知れるも人のおもとする業なれバなり。女ハ墨黒に品とり恐／＼しからず。上代のふうの雅たるを学バんぞ奥ゆかし。
歌麿画 女風俗品さだめ 囲
人に身を任するの業(わざ)ハ妾(しゃう)に似てそのこと味別なり。あるハ遊女を請け出だせしか妻を忍ぶのたぐひその品さま／＼あり。
たゞにや手と云へバ物書く事と知れるも人のおもとする業なれバなり。女ハ墨黒に品とり恐／＼しからず。上代のふうの雅たるを学バんぞ奥ゆかし。
歌麿画 女風俗品さだめ 囲
人に身を任するの業(わざ)ハ妾(しゃう)に似てそのこと味別なり。あるハ遊女を請け出だせしか妻を忍ぶのたぐひその品さま／＼あり。
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.
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.