Kisen Hôshi: Komurasaki of the Tamaya, from an untitled series of courtesans for the Six Poetic Immortals (Rokkasen)

遊女見立六歌仙　「玉屋　小紫」　喜撰法師

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

Japanese

Edo period

about 1802 (Kyôwa 2)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.5 x 26.7 cm (15 3/16 x 10 1/2 in.)

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

Accession Number34.268

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #258.1; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 201.1.1; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #807

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks No censor's seal
Collector's seal: Hayashi Tadamasa
改印：なし

InscriptionsPoem (Kokinshû 983, Hyakunin isshu 8): Waga io wa/ miyako no tatsumi/ shika zo sumu/ yo o ujiyama to/ hito wa iu nari

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