Arm-wrestling (Ude-zumô): Champion of the West, Naniwaya Okita of Asakusa (Nishi no kata, seki, Asakusa Naniwaya Kita) versus Champion of the East, Takashimaya Ohisa of Ryôgoku (Higashi no kata, seki, Ryôgoku Takashima Hisa)

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Arm-wrestling (Ude-zumô): Champion of the West, Naniwaya Okita of Asakusa (Nishi no kata, seki, Asakusa Naniwaya Kita) versus Champion of the East, Takashimaya Ohisa of Ryôgoku (Higashi no kata, seki, Ryôgoku Takashima Hisa)

腕相撲　「西ノ方関　浅草難波屋きた　東ノ方関　両国高しまひさ」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Iwatoya Kisaburô (Eirindô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1794 (Kansei 6)

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 22.6 x 33.3 cm (8 7/8 x 13 1/8 in.)

Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Helen and Alice Colburn Fund

Accession Number54.564

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), fig. 6; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 235.4.2; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #117; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #372

DescriptionActor Segawa Kikunojô serves as referee and judge.

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)