The Competitive Type (Tatehiki sô), from the series Thirty-two Physiognomic Types in the Modern World (Tôsei sanjûni sô)

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The Competitive Type (Tatehiki sô), from the series Thirty-two Physiognomic Types in the Modern World (Tôsei sanjûni sô)

「当世三十弐相　たてひき相」

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Nishinomiya Shinroku (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1820s

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37 x 26 cm (14 9/16 x 10 1/4 in.)

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

Accession Number34.487

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hinohara, Utagawa Kunisada (Ôta Mus., 2016), p. 12; Seikado, Kunisada (exh. cat., 1996), #60; Izzard, Kunisada's World (1993), #27/2

Signed Gototei Kunisada ga
五渡亭国貞画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

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