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Courtesans beneath a Wisteria Arbor


藤棚下の遊女たち
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1795 (Kansei 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 39.2 x 77 cm (15 7/16 x 30 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1129, 11.14383, 11.14388
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #195; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #38; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 11.2.1-3; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #s 343 (R), 344 (L)
DescriptionTriptych: 06.1129 (center), 11.14383 (left), 11.14388 (right)
Signed Utamaro hitsu (on each sheet)
歌麿筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross