Saying Things That Make People Angry When Drunk (Warukuchi o itte hito ni hara tatasaseru sakakuse), from the series Twelve Aspects of Drunkenness (Sakekigen jûni sô no uchi)

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Saying Things That Make People Angry When Drunk (Warukuchi o itte hito ni hara tatasaseru sakakuse), from the series Twelve Aspects of Drunkenness (Sakekigen jûni sô no uchi)

「酒機嫌十二相之内　悪口を言って人に腹を立たさせる酒癖」

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

Japanese

Meiji era

1885 (Meiji 18), May

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.1 × 25 cm (14 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Anonymous gift

Accession Number2023.383

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/

DescriptionThis is the only print in the series on which the series title is actually written.

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)