Woman Warming Her Hands inside Her Kimono, from the series Eight Views of Tea-stalls in Famous Places (Meisho koshikake hakkei), second edition

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Woman Warming Her Hands inside Her Kimono, from the series Eight Views of Tea-stalls in Famous Places (Meisho koshikake hakkei), second edition

名所腰掛八景　懐手

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Ezakiya Kichibei (Tenjudō) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1796–97 (Kansei 8–9)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.4 x 25 cm (14 5/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.6458

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 9 (1981), pl. 95 (this edition); Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #391.6.2; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #244 (1st ed.); the series: Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #s 239-43 (this design mentioned but not illustrated)

DescriptionThe first edition, published by Iseya Rihei, has the series title and a poem.

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks No censor's seal
改印：なし

ProvenanceSpring 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.