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Jewel River of Plovers in Mutsu Province (Mutsu Chidori Tamagawa), from the series Fashionable Six Jewel Rivers (Fûryû Mu Tamagawa)


「風流六玉川 陸奥 千鳥の玉川」
Kitagawa Utamaro II (Japanese, ?–1831?)
Publisher: Yamashiroya Tôemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1800-1805

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35 x 23 cm (13 3/4 x 9 1/16 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 NumberRES.54.45
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Other prints in the series: Yonemura et al., Masterful Illusions (2002), #182; Ukiyo-e shûka 13 (1981), p. 178, fig. 185
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)