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「当世美人七小町」 通い
Visiting (Kayoi), from the series Modern Beauties as the Seven Komachi (Tôsei bijin Nana Komachi)
「当世美人七小町」 通い
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Kawaguchiya Uhei (Fukusendō) (Japanese)
Publisher: Kawaguchiya Uhei (Fukusendō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1821–22 (Bunsei 4–5)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 36.5 x 25.5 cm (14 3/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Nellie Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter
Accession Number34.482
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ushiyama, Kunisada hyakusen gashû, zokuhen (1928), #72; the series: Schaap, Kunisada (exh. cat., 2016), checklist 1-23
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
InscriptionsPoem: Iro miede/ utsurou mono wa/ yo no naka no/ hito no kokoro no/ hana ni zo arikeri
「色みへてうつろふものは世の中の人のこゝろの花にぞありけり」
「色みへてうつろふものは世の中の人のこゝろの花にぞありけり」
Provenance1934, bequest of Nellie Parney Carter to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 4, 1934)