The Third Month, from an untitled pentaptych of the Five Festivals (Gosekku)

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The Third Month, from an untitled pentaptych of the Five Festivals (Gosekku)

五節句　三月

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1803 (Kyôwa 3)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 24.5 cm (14 3/4 x 9 5/8 in.)

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

Accession Number34.264

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #264; Ukiyo-e shûka 9 (1981), pls. 152-6 (complete); Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 29.1.1-5 (complete); Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #s 701-3 (sheets 1, 3, 4)

DescriptionCenter right sheet of incomplete pentaptych.

MFA impressions: *06.1767 (C only, deaccessioned in 2019), 11.14195VR (11.14195, 11.14198, 11.14332, 11.14337, 11.14341; complete), 18.291-5 (complete), 34.264 (CR only)

Signed Utamaro hitsu (on each sheet)
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)