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Love for a Farmer's Wife (Nôfu ni yosuru koi)


「寄農婦恋」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Matsumura Tatsuemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1795–96 (Kansei 7–8)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.7 x 23.3 cm (14 1/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.6417
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #248; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #490.1; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 63.3.2; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #226; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #70
Signed Shômei Utamaro hitsu
Marks No censor's seal
Artist's seal: Honke (true line)
改印:なし
Inscriptions紀柾也
恋のたねまきそめしより苗代の 水ももらさぬ中とこそなれ
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.