Komachi Washing the Manuscript (Sôshi arai Komachi), from the series Modern Girls as the Seven Komachi (Imayô musume Nana Komachi)

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Komachi Washing the Manuscript (Sôshi arai Komachi), from the series Modern Girls as the Seven Komachi (Imayô musume Nana Komachi)

「今やう娘七小町　草紙洗小まち」

Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)

Japanese

Edo period

1810s (late Bunka era)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.8 x 25.8 cm (15 1/4 x 10 3/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Henry Adams

Accession Number20.121

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e taikei 9 (1976), #191; another print in the series (Sotoba): Kokubungaku kenkyû shiryôkan, ed., Zusetsu mitate to yatsushi (2008), p. 41, cat. no. 34

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.13632, 20.121, 21.6983

Unidentified publisher's mark.

Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

InscriptionsPoem: Makanaku ni/ nani o tane to te/ ukigusa no/ nami no une-une/ oishigeruran

ProvenanceHenry Brooks Adams (b. 1838 - d. 1918), Washington, DC; 1920, gift of the estate of Henry Brooks Adams to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 22, 1920)