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Wakaura and Wakana of the Wakanaya, from the series Courtesans of the Pleasure Quarters in Double Mirrors (Seirô yûkun awase kagami)


「青楼遊君合鏡 若那屋内 若菜 和歌浦」
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; 38.0 x 25.0 cm
Credit Line Nellie Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter
Accession Number34.255
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Golden Age (2010), #74; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #339.7, pl. 73
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
Collector's seal: Hayashi Tadamasa
改印:なし
Provenance1934, bequest of Nellie Parney Carter to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 4, 1934)