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Manzai Performance at a Mansion, from Vol. 1 of the book Ehon shiki no hana (Flowers of the Four Seasons)

Manzai Performance at a Mansion, from Vol. 1 of the book Ehon shiki no hana (Flowers of the Four Seasons)

絵本四季花　上　武家の奥座敷における万歳

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)

Japanese

Edo period

1801 (Kansei 13/Kyôwa 1), 1st month

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

Dimensions Two pages; 17.1 x 25 cm (6 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich

Accession Number47.9

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #484.2 (bw photo in text vol.)

DescriptionMFA impressions:
intact book: 2011.802 (vol. 1 only), 2011.804 (complete)
pictures cut out and mounted in two-page spreads, with margins cut off: 47.3 to 47.14

Signed (On final page of Vol. 2: Gakô Kitagawa Utamaro)

Provenance1947, gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich to the MFA. (Accession date: January 9, 1947)