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「新吉原大門口中之町 浮絵根元」
Original Perspective Picture of the Great Gate and Naka-no-chô in the Shin Yoshiwara (Shin Yoshiwara Ômonguchi Naka-no-chô uki-e kongen)
「新吉原大門口中之町 浮絵根元」
Japanese
Edo period
1740s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print; ink on paper, with hand-applied color
Dimensions
Horizontal ô-ôban; 32.6 x 46.3 cm (12 13/16 x 18 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.5773
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kishi, Edo no enkin-hô (1994), fig. 62; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 10, Museo d'Arte Orientale, Genoa, I (1988), pl. 62; Ukiyo-e shûka 1 (1983), pl. 31; Waterhouse, Images of Eighteenth-Century Japan (1975), #25
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.386, 21.5773
Signed
Nihon Tôbu gakô Hôgetsudô Tanchôsai Okumura Masanobu shôhitsu
日本東武画工 方月堂丹鳥斎奥村政信正筆
日本東武画工 方月堂丹鳥斎奥村政信正筆
ProvenanceSeptember 1911, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from the E. F. Fenollosa collection; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.