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Four Beauties in a Parody of the Carriage-pulling Scene (Kurumabiki)


四美人の見立車引
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Yama-Den (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1793 (Kansei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal double ôban (bai-ôban); 33.4 x 45.9 cm (13 1/8 x 18 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Asiatic Curator's Fund
Accession Number54.35
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #111; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #529, pl. 110; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 235.4.3; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #229
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
Collector's seal: Hayashi Tadamasa
改印:極