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Woman Fanning Herself, from the series Types of the Floating World Seen through a Physiognomist's Glass (Ukiyo jinsei tengankyô)


「浮世人精天眼鏡」 団扇
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
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 26.3 cm (14 7/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Nellie Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter
Accession Number34.469
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Utagawa-ha (Kobijutsu special issue, 1986), #82; another print in the series: Izzard, Kunisada's World (12993), #60
DescriptionMFA impressions: *11.15624 (deaccessioned in 2012), 34.469
Signed Gototei Kunisada ga
五渡亭国貞画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
Inscriptions「我おもふ心のうちは(団扇)風となりて入りたきものぞ君がふところ 需に応じて山東庵京山戯題」
Provenance1934, bequest of Nellie Parney Carter to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 4, 1934)