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A Competition of Elegance: Cooling Off in Kyoto (Tsuya kurabe miyako no suzumi): Actors


「艶くらべ都のすゞみ」
Ichiyôtei Yoshitaki (Japanese, 1841–1899)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1869–70 (Meiji 2-3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban pentaptych; 24 x 86.9 cm (9 7/16 x 34 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession Number08.542.10a-e
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Yoshitaki ga (on each sheet)
芳瀧画
Marks Unidentified seal, "aratame"?
ProvenanceBy date unknown, Alfred Greenough Collection, Boston, MA; 1884, by inheritance to his uncle, Charles H. Parker, Milton, MA; 1908, bequest of Charles H. Parker to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 17, 2007)