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Drunkard (Namayoi), from the series A Parent's Moralising Spectacles (Kyôkun oya no megane)


「教訓親の眼鏡 酩酊」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1802 (Kyôwa 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39 x 25.5 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds by exchange from the William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number68.746
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #394; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #155.3; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 55.1.3; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #636; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #258
DescriptionNo publisher's mark on this impression; other impressions have mark of Tsuruya Kinsuke.
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
Provenance1968, acquired by exchange from Nathan Chaikin. (Accession date: November 13, 1968)