Somando of the Ôgiya, from the series Flowers for the Five Festivals (Gosetsu no hana awase), first edition

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Somando of the Ôgiya, from the series Flowers for the Five Festivals (Gosetsu no hana awase), first edition

「五節花合せ　扇屋　蓬莱仙」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Ise-Yo (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1797–98 (Kansei 9–10)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37 x 24.1 cm (14 9/16 x 9 1/2 in.)

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

Accession Number34.263

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 13 (1981), fig. 62; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #395.5.1; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 32.1.1; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #340

DescriptionLeft sheet of incomplete pentaptych.

MFA impressions: 11.14248 (later edition, with new gray block), 34.263 (earlier edition)

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

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