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Visiting Komachi (Kayoi Komachi), from the series Modern Girls as the Seven Komachi (Imayô musume Nana Komachi)


「今やう娘七小町 かよひ小町」
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; 38.6 x 25.3 cm (15 3/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Henry Adams
Accession Number20.122
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Another print in the series (Sotoba): Kokubungaku kenkyû shiryôkan, ed., Zusetsu mitate to yatsushi (2008), p. 41, cat. no. 34
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.13628, *11.40040 (deaccessioned in 2012), 20.122, 21.6984

Unidentified publisher's mark.
Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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)