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Hanaôgi of the Ôgiya, from the series Selections from Six Houses of the Yoshiwara (Seirô rokkasen)


「青楼六家撰 扇屋 花扇」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Ômiya Gonkurô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1801 (Kansei 13/Kyôwa 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38 x 26 cm (14 15/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—Chinese Expedition, 1923–24
Accession Number54.266
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #314.4; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 58.1.4
DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.6581, 54.266
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)