The Type That Attracts Clients from Edo (Azuma no okyaku mo uki sô), from the series Thirty-two Physiognomic Types in the Modern World (Tôsei sanjûni sô)

「当世三十弐相　あづまのお客もうき相」

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 Number34.496

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Kuniyoshi & Kunisada (2016), #100; Seikado, Kunisada (exh. cat., 1996), #61; Ukiyo-e taikei 10 (1976), #87

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)