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The Tango Festival, from the series Five Festivals of Mutual Desire (Aibore iro no Gosekku)


「合惚色の五節句」 端午の節句
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1800 (Kansei 12)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.6 x 25.1 cm (14 13/16 x 9 7/8 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 Number54.280
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #233.3.2; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 105.1.3; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #659; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #228
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)