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若い男女
A Lady and Her Lover
若い男女
Kitao Shigemasa (Japanese, 1739–1820)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1770 (Meiwa 7)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical chûban; 27 x 19.8 cm (10 5/8 x 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.5851
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ukiyo-e shûka 9 (1981), pl. 56; Waterhouse, Images of Eighteenth-Century Japan (1975), #125
DescriptionIdentified in Ukiyo-e shûka 9 as a parody of the Kusazuribiki (Armor-pulling) scene.
Signed
Shigemasa ga
重政画
重政画
ProvenanceFebruary 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from J. Clarence Webster Collection; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.