Ginjûrô's Wife Oyumi in a Scene of Pathos from the Play Whirlpools of Awa (Awa no naruto, hirei no dan, Ginjûrô nyôbô Oyumi), from the series Bamboo Nodes in the Patterns of Puppet Plays [i.e. Scenes from Puppet Plays] (Ayatsuri moyô take no hitofushi)

「綾徒理模様竹の一節　阿波の鳴門　悲礼の段　銀十郎女房おゆみ」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1806 (Bunka 3), 1st month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37 x 25.2 cm (14 9/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Captain John C. Phillips

Accession Number18.299

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #375.8; Ukiyo-e shûka 6 (AIC III, 1978), pl. 129

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks Censor's seals: kiwame, shô (1st month)
改印：極、正

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