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Visiting Komachi (Kayoi Komachi), from the series Little Seedlings: Seven Komachi (Futaba-gusa nana Komachi)


「二葉草七小町 かよひ小町」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon (Senkakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1803 (Kyôwa 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39.8 x 27.2 cm (15 11/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Nellie Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter
Accession Number34.262
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #428 (this print described but not illustrated); Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #115.3; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 141.1.3; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #747; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #278
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.14204, 34.262
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
Provenance1934, bequest of Nellie Parney Carter to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 4, 1934)