Taking It Out on Someone Else When Drunk (Hito ni ataru sakakuse), from the series Twelve Aspects of Drunkenness (Sakekigen jûni sô no uchi)

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Taking It Out on Someone Else When Drunk (Hito ni ataru sakakuse), from the series Twelve Aspects of Drunkenness (Sakekigen jûni sô no uchi)

酒機嫌十二相　「人に当たる酒癖」

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

Japanese

Meiji era

1885 (Meiji 18), July

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.3 × 24.3 cm (14 5/16 × 9 9/16 in.)

Credit Line Anonymous gift

Accession Number2023.382

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 hitsu
　清親筆

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)