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Yamauba and Kintarô Winding String for Kite


山姥と金太郎 凧糸
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1801–04 (Kyôwa 1–4)
Object Place: United States

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 26 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Asiatic Curator's Fund
Accession Number56.77
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan 9, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels (1989), pl. 164; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #722.2; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 209.1.4; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #387; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #285
DescriptionThe impression illustrated in Shibui and Ukiyo-e taisei has the mark of publisher Tsutaya Jûzaburô.
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
No publisher's mark
改印:なし
版元:なし
Provenance1956, purchased from H. Yatsuhashi, Inc. (Accession date: February 9, 1956)