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Fishing at Iwaya, Enoshima


江之島岩屋の釣遊び
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Fushimiya Zenroku (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1790 (Kansei 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.5 x 73.7 cm (14 3/8 x 29 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 Number54.205-7
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #50; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #516, pls. 99-101; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 23.1.1-3; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #42; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #317
DescriptionTriptych: 54.205 (left), 54.206 (center), 54.207 (right)

MFA impressions: 06.660 (left sheet only), 11.14394 (center sheet only), 54.205-7 (complete triptych)
Signed Utamaro ga (on each sheet)
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)