The Jewel River of Mount Kôya (Kôya no Tamagawa), from the series Six Modern Jewel-like Faces (Tôsei mu tamagao), a pun on Six Jewel Rivers (Mu Tamagawa)

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The Jewel River of Mount Kôya (Kôya no Tamagawa), from the series Six Modern Jewel-like Faces (Tôsei mu tamagao), a pun on Six Jewel Rivers (Mu Tamagawa)

「当世六玉顔　高野の玉川」

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Moritaya Hanzô (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1830s

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.3 x 26 cm (14 5/16 x 10 1/4 in.)

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

Accession Number34.505

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hinohara, Utagawa Kunisada (Ôta Mus., 2016), p. 16; Seikado, Kunisada (exh. cat., 1996), #100; the series: Schaap, Kunisada (exh. cat., 2016), checklist 1-84

Signed Kôchôrô Kunisada ga
香蝶楼国貞画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

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