Twilight Snow of the Widow (Goke no bosetsu), from the series Eight VIews of Floating World Customs (Fûzoku ukiyo hakkei)

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Twilight Snow of the Widow (Goke no bosetsu), from the series Eight VIews of Floating World Customs (Fûzoku ukiyo hakkei)

「風俗浮世八景　後家の暮雪」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1795 (Kansei 7)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 33.8 x 23 cm (13 5/16 x 9 1/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.6369

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #61.1, and fig. 10; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 120.1.1; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #313; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #146

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

ProvenancePurchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from W. L. Keane collection (#263); December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.