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The Five Festivals (Gosekku)


五節句
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1803 (Kyôwa 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban pentaptych; 37.1 x 130.2 cm (14 5/8 x 51 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Captain John C. Phillips
Accession Number18.291-5
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #264; Ukiyo-e shûka 9 (1981), pls. 152-6 (complete); Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 29.1.1-5 (complete); Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #s 701-3 (sheets 1, 3, 4)
DescriptionPentaptych: 18.291 (center right), 18.292 (center left), 18.293 (center), 18.294 (right), 18.295 (left)

MFA impressions: *06.1767 (C only, deaccessioned in 2019), 11.14195VR (11.14195, 11.14198, 11.14332, 11.14337, 11.14341; complete), 18.291-5 (complete), 34.264 (CR only)
Signed Utamaro hitsu (on each sheet)
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
Provenance1918, gift of Captain John C. Phillips to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 16, 1918)