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「浮世人精天眼鏡」 化粧
Woman Checking Her Makeup in a Mirror, from the series Types of the Floating World Seen through a Physiognomist's Glass (Ukiyo jinsei tengankyô)
「浮世人精天眼鏡」 化粧
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Moriya Jihei (Kinshindô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Moriya Jihei (Kinshindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1830 (Bunsei 13/Tenpô 1)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 36.7 x 26.2 cm (14 7/16 x 10 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Nellie Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter
Accession Number34.465
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Izzard, Kunisada's World (1993), #60; Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Utagawa-ha (Kobijutsu special issue, 1986), #83; Ukiyo-e taisei 11 (1931), #188
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.15628, 34.465
Signed
Gototei Kunisada ga
五渡亭国貞画
五渡亭国貞画
Marks
Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極
改印：極
InscriptionsInscription and poem by Santô Kyôzan
「出格子にちらりと見たる花の香を誰がかこゐたる室咲の梅 需に応して山東庵京山題」
「出格子にちらりと見たる花の香を誰がかこゐたる室咲の梅 需に応して山東庵京山題」
Provenance1934, bequest of Nellie Parney Carter to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 4, 1934)