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Parody of Narihira's Journey to the East


見立業平東下り
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Moriya Jihei (Kinshindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1797–98 (Kansei 9–10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.9 x 25.1 cm (14 15/16 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 Number54.286
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #278; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #462.1
DescriptionRight sheet of incomplete triptych.

MFA impressions: 21.6476 (center sheet), 54.286 (right sheet)
Painting by Yoshika, based on the complete triptych: 11.7981
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)