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Women Viewing Fireworks at Ryôgoku Bridge


両国川開きの景
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1800 (Kansei 12)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 25 cm (14 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.6401
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #46.3, pl. 192; Ukiyo-e shûka 15 (1980), p. 237, reference figs. 65-6 (C & R, in TNM); Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 11.1.1; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #538; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #108
DescriptionLeft sheet of an incomplete triptych; the right and center sheets are in the Tokyo National Museum collection.
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
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.