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No. 10 from the series Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)


「女織蚕手業草 十」
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 Number19.156
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #105.10; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 138.3.2; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #456; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #158; the series: Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #s 325-6 (this design not shown)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 19.156, 21.7330, 34.250

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糸綿を択み分る図

簇(まゆはり)より糸をおろし
色白くいさぎよきを細糸のまゆとし
色黒きを粗糸乃まゆとす
真綿に引ても上中下をゑらみ分ち
形を作りて束綿幾ばく把とするなり
Provenance1919, acquired by exchange from Yamanaka & Co. (Accession date: May 1, 1919)