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Wedding Scene, a Triptych (Konrei no zu, sanmai tsuzuki)


「婚礼之図 三枚続」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Maruya Bun'emon (Bunjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1805 (Bunka 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37.1 x 76.7 cm (14 5/8 x 30 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Captain John C. Phillips
Accession Number18.288-90
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #356.1-3; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 38.2.4, 39.2.1-2; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #346 (all); Album of Old Japanese Prints of the Ukiyo-ye School Reproduced from the Collection of Ken-ichi Kawaura (1919), #135 (all)
DescriptionTriptych (right half of hexaptych): 18.288 (left), 18.289 (right), 18.290 (center)

MFA impressions: 18.288-90, 21.7688-90
Center sheet only of left half of hexaptych: 11.14333
Signed Utamaro hitsu (on each sheet)
歌麿筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
Provenance1918, gift of Captain John C. Phillips to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 16, 1918)