Folding Fan Seller, Round Fan Seller, Barley Pounder (Ôgi-uri, dansen-uri, mugi-tsuki), from the series Female Geisha Section of the Yoshiwara Niwaka Festival (Seirô Niwaka onna geisha no bu)

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Folding Fan Seller, Round Fan Seller, Barley Pounder (Ôgi-uri, dansen-uri, mugi-tsuki), from the series Female Geisha Section of the Yoshiwara Niwaka Festival (Seirô Niwaka onna geisha no bu)

「青楼仁和嘉女芸者之部　扇売　団扇売　麦つき」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon (Senkakudô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1793 (Kansei 5)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 40.4 x 27.3 cm (15 7/8 x 10 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Nellie Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter

Accession Number34.261

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Printed Treasures (2008), #72; Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #95; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #80.3; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 85.1.3; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #94

Signed Utamaro ga
歌麿画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

Provenance1934, bequest of Nellie Parney Carter to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 4, 1934)