Striking Pompous Poses When Drunk (Hitori de kidoru sakakuse), from the series Twelve Aspects of Drunkenness (Sakekigen jûni sô no uchi)

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Striking Pompous Poses When Drunk (Hitori de kidoru sakakuse), from the series Twelve Aspects of Drunkenness (Sakekigen jûni sô no uchi)

酒機嫌十二相　「独で気取る酒癖」

Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japanese, 1847–1915)
Author of text: Koishikawa Kibō (Japanese, active 1880s)
Publisher: Ogawa Takei (Japanese, active 1880s)

Japanese

Meiji era

1888 (Meiji 21), July

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.3 × 25 cm (14 11/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Anonymous gift

Accession Number2023.381

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné https://pages.uoregon.edu/jsmacollections/home/artists/kiyochika-kobayashi-1847-1915-/irokezuku-sakekuse-from-the-serie-18d9a26a519fcdda.html ; https://radonna.biz/blog/sakakigen/

DescriptionThe series title appears on only one of the twelve prints in the series; see 2023.383.

Signed Kiyochika
清親

ProvenanceSeptember 22, 2005, anonymous sale, Christie’s, New York, lot 102, to an anonymous collector; 2023, anonymous gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 21, 2023)