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Pounding Dough for New Year Ricecakes (Mochizuki no zu), from the book Seirô ehon nenjû gyôji (Picturebook of Annual Events in the Yoshiwara)


青楼絵本年中行事 「餅つきの図」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Japanese
Edo period
1804 (Kyôwa 4/Bunka 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (key block print, kôgôzuri); ink on paper
Dimensions Two pages; 18.1 x 26.8 cm (7 1/8 x 10 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Asiatic Curator's Fund
Accession Number56.97
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #487.20 (bw photo in text vol.); Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western Collections, Beres Collection (1991), pl. 229
DescriptionVolume 2, double-page picture 8.
Book published by Kazusaya Chûsuke, with text by Jippensha Ikku.
Signed (On title page of Vol. 1: Kitagawa Utamaro ga)