Onitsutaya Azamino and Gontarô, a Man of the World (Onitsutaya Azamino, isami-tsû Gontarô), from the series True Feelings Compared: The Founts of Love (Jitsu kurabe iro no minakami)

「実競色乃美名家見　鬼蔦屋薊野　いさみ通権太四良」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1798–99 (Kansei 10–11)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.7 x 25 cm (15 1/4 x 9 13/16 in.

Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Langenbach in memory of Charles Hovey Pepper

Accession Number54.1519

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #306; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #367.21, pl. 188

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

Provenance1954, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Langenbach to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 9, 1954)