Floss-stretching, from the series Twelve Types of Women's Handicraft (Fujin tewaza jûniko)

「婦人手業拾二工」　綿くり

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1800 (Kansei 12)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.2 x 26 cm (15 1/16 x 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.6445

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #232.11; and 7 (1979), p. 188, fig. 248; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 103.3.3

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks No censor's seal
Collector's seals: Tadamasa, Wakai oyaji
改印：なし

ProvenancePurchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Y. Sumitomo; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.