Women Playing Packhorse Driver and Passenger, from the series Entertainments of the Niwaka Festival in the Yoshiwara in Full Swing (Seirô Niwaka zensei asobi)

「青楼仁和嘉全盛遊」　馬方

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

Japanese

Edo period

about 1801 (Kansei 13/Kyôwa 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical aiban; 31.6 x 21.7 cm (12 7/16 x 8 9/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Porter Sargent

Accession Number49.1778

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The series: Ukiyo-e shûka 3, p. 241, list #510 (this design not mentioned)

DescriptionUnidentified publisher's mark.

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

Provenance1949, gift of Porter Sargent to the MFA.