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Teasing the Baby with a Winter Cherry (Hôzuki)


ほおずき
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Ômiya Gonkurô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1799–1800 (Kansei 11–12)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.7 x 25.4 cm (15 1/4 x 10 in.)
Credit Line Gift of C. Adrian Rübel
Accession Number46.1404
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #369; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #313.7
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
Collector's seal: Hayashi Tadamasa
改印:なし
Provenance1946, gift of Charles Adrien Rübel to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 12, 1946)