Komurasaki and Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya, from the series Courtesans of the Pleasure Quarters in Double Mirrors (Seirô yûkun awase kagami) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Komurasaki and Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya, from the series Courtesans of the Pleasure Quarters in Double Mirrors (Seirô yûkun awase kagami)

Komurasaki and Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya, from the series Courtesans of the Pleasure Quarters in Double Mirrors (Seirô yûkun awase kagami)

「青楼遊君合鏡　玉屋内　小紫　花紫」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Yamadaya Sanshirô

Japanese

Edo period

about 1797 (Kansei 9)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 24 cm (14 3/4 x 9 7/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.6391

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #339.5, pl. 150

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks No censor's seal
Collector's seal: Hayashi Tadamasa
改印：なし

ProvenancePurchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from W. L. Keane collection (#527); December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.