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Yamauba and Kintarô with Ink Painting of Wish-granting Jewels


山姥と金太郎 玉の絵
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Murataya Jirobei (Eiyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1795–1805 (Kansei 7–Bunka 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.2 x 24.5 cm (14 5/8 x 9 5/8 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 Number54.267
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #731; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 209.3.4; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #438
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)