Woman Playing with Cat, from the series Spring Dawn: A Contest of Beauties (Haru no akebono, bijin awase)

「美人合　春曙」　猫と遊ぶ美人

Japanese

Edo period

1820s

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 Number34.513

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hinohara, Utagawa Kunisada (Ôta Mus., 2016), p. 50; the series: Schaap, Kunisada (exh. cat., 2016), checklist 1-30, photo p. 156

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.43576, 34.513

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)