A Kept Woman (Kakoi), from the series Contest of Present-day Beauties (Tōsei bijin awase)

「当世美人合　かこゐ」

Japanese

Edo period

about 1827 (Bunsei 10)

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

Dimensions Vertical ōban; 36.5 x 25.8 cm (14 3/8 x 10 3/16 in.)

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

Accession Number34.455

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hiraki Ukiyo-e Foundation, Women Reflecting in the Mirror (2025), #17; Hinohara, Utagawa Kunisada (Ōta Mus., 2016), p. 25

Signed Kōchōrō Kunisada ga
香蝶楼国貞画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

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