Geisha Style (Geisha fû), from the series The Connoisseur of Present-day Customs (Tôsei fûzoku tsû)

「当世風俗通　芸者風」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Moriya Jihei (Kinshindô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1801 (Kansei 13/Kyôwa 1)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.1 x 26.2 cm (14 5/8 x 10 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich

Accession Number49.673

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #469.4

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks No censor's seal
改印：なし

Provenance1949, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession date: September 15, 1949)