Comparison of Slender Hips Like WIllows in Snow at the Yanagiya Bathhouse (Kurabe koshi yuki no Yanagiya), from the series Annual Customs of the Present Day (Imayô nenjû gyôji no uchi)

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Comparison of Slender Hips Like WIllows in Snow at the Yanagiya Bathhouse (Kurabe koshi yuki no Yanagiya), from the series Annual Customs of the Present Day (Imayô nenjû gyôji no uchi)

「時世粧年中行事之内　競細腰雪柳風呂」

Utagawa Yoshiiku (Japanese, 1833–1904)
Publisher: Hirookaya Kôsuke (Kikujudô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period–Meiji era

1868 (Keiô 4/Meiji 1), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 34.6 × 73.4 cm (13 5/8 × 28 7/8 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Porter Sargent

Accession Number50.2616-8

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Salter, Japanese Popular Prints (2006), pp. 76-7, fig. 68; Genshoku ukiyo-e dai hyakka jiten 5 (1980), #183; Konishi, Nishiki-e Bakumatsu Meiji no rekishi 5 (1977), pp. 47-9; Ukiyo-e taikei 12 (1976), #s 40-2; TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 3 (1963), #s 3139-41

DescriptionTriptych: 50.2616 (left), 50.2617 (center), 50.2618 (right)

Signed Ikkeisai Yoshiiku ga (on each sheet)
一恵斎芳幾画

Marks Censor's seal: Dragon 9 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印：辰九改
彫師：なし