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「浮世人精天眼鏡」 針仕事
Woman Threading a Needle, from the series Types of the Floating World Seen through a Physiognomist's Glass (Ukiyo jinsei tengankyô)
「浮世人精天眼鏡」 針仕事
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; 36.6 x 26 cm (14 7/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Nellie Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter
Accession Number34.467
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hinohara, Utagawa Kunisada (Ôta Mus., 2016), p. 73 (blue); Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Utagawa-ha (Kobijutsu special issue, 1986), #84
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.15625 (blue background), 34.467 (yellow background)
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
Inscriptions「はりてもねからおちざる白露をよく/\見れば玉のかんさし 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)