Woman Looking in a Hand Mirror, from the series Light Makeup of the Present Day (Tôsei usugeshô)

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Woman Looking in a Hand Mirror, from the series Light Makeup of the Present Day (Tôsei usugeshô)

「当世　薄化粧」　手鏡

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Shimizu (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about late 1820s (late Bunsei era)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38 x 25.5 cm (14 15/16 x 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—MFA Chinese Expedition, 1923-24

Accession NumberRES.54.187.13

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné POLA Research Inst., Edo bijin no yosooi (2018), pp. 22-3

DescriptionThree prints from the same series, with two different versions of the series title: 11.15235 (Jisei usugeshô), 17.3214.28 (Tôsei usugeshô), RES.54.187.13 (Tôsei usugeshô)

Album: RES.54.187.1-.38
三河屋(版元№692)の可能性もあり。

Signed Gototei Kunisada ga
五渡亭国貞画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極