Hanazuma and Tsukioka of the Hyôgoya, from the series Courtesans of the Pleasure Quarters in Double Mirrors (Seirô yûkun awase kagami)

「青楼遊君合鏡　兵庫屋内　花妻　月岡」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Yamadaya Sanshirô

Japanese

Edo period

about 1797 (Kansei 9)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.2 x 25.9 cm (14 5/8 x 10 3/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Captain John C. Phillips

Accession Number18.307

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #339.3; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 115.1.3

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks No censor's seal
改印：なし

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