Five Beauties Playing Go (from right): Tachibanaya Otatsu, Naniwaya Okita, Tomimoto Toyohina, Takashima Ohisa, Hiranoya Oseyo

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Five Beauties Playing Go (from right): Tachibanaya Otatsu, Naniwaya Okita, Tomimoto Toyohina, Takashima Ohisa, Hiranoya Oseyo

囲碁を囲む五美人　「橘屋おたつ　難波屋おきた　富本豊雛　高しまおひさ　ひらのやおせよ」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Maruya Bun'emon (Bunjudô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1793–94 (Kansei 5–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (key block print, kôgôzuri); ink on paper

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 27.3 x 39.8 cm (10 3/4 x 15 11/16 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 Number54.270

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Golden Age (2010), #55; Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #84 (full color print); Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #351; Ukiyo-e shûka 10 (1979), pl. 118 (full color print)

Signed Utamaro ga
歌麿画

Marks No censor's seal
改印：なし

Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)