Night Rain (Yoru no ame): Karakoto of the Chôjiya, kamuro Ageha and Yayoi, from the series Eight Views of Visits to the Flourishing Pleasure District (Kayoi kuruwa sakari hakkei)

「通廓盛八景　夜の雨　丁子屋内　唐琴　あけは　やよひ」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Ômiya Gonkurô (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1804 (Kyôwa 4/Bunka 1)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.9 x 25.8 cm (14 1/2 x 10 3/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Captain John C. Phillips

Accession Number18.298

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #315.6

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

Provenance1918, gift of Captain John C. Phillips to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 16, 1918)