Daimyô yashiki no Kyôden // [Santô Kyôden at a Daimyô’s mansion].

Woodcutter
Kitagawa, Utamaro, 1753?-1806 [Browse]
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Visual material
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No linguistic content
Published/​Created
Japan : [s.n.], n.d. [ca. 1788-1790]
Description
1 item ; sheet 37.4 x 50.4 cm.

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Special Collections - Graphic Arts Collection GA 2008.01151 E Row 1/GC063/Box 14/Oversize Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    • Medium: Nishiki-e (color woodblock print)
    • Format: Ôban tate-e diptych (left and center sheets of triptych).
    • Inscribed [poem]: Utayomi wa heta koso yokere ametsuchi no ugoki-idashite tamaru mono ka wa (When composing poems, the more inept the better. For who could stand it, if the heavens and earth were moved). -- By Yadoya no Meshimori, translated by Timothy Cl.
    • Provenance: Purchased at one of three 1947 sales at Parke-Bernet or at Gimbels Department Store, New York City.
    • Signed: Utamaro ga.
    Source acquisition
    Gift of Gillett G. Griffin in honor of Dale Roylance. Given 2008.
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