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No. 7 from the series Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)


「女織蚕手業草 七」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon (Senkakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1798–1800 (Kansei 10–12)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.8 x 26 cm (15 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number19.153
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #105.7; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 138.2.3; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #453; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #155; the series:Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #s 325-6 (this design not shown)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 19.153, 21.7327, 34.247

Optionally, the series can be assembled into a continuous 12-sheet image.
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
Inscriptions蚕の種を取図

簇物(まゆはるもの)より取時 形のよき蚕をゑらんで
糸にてくゝり釣置ハ蛾(ひが)の蝶になり
出る牝牡を一つにして紙に移し置ハ段々子を産付るなり
これをうハ子といふ
Provenance1919, acquired by exchange from Yamanaka & Co. (Accession date: May 1, 1919)