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竹林七賢人
The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
竹林七賢人
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Japanese
Edo period
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (sumizuri with usuzumi); ink on paper
Dimensions
Horizontal yotsugiri (quarter ôban); 12.9 x 19.2 cm (5 1/16 x 7 9/16 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 Number54.278
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #865 (?)
Signed
Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
歌麿筆
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)