Camellia, from the series Flowers of Edo: Girl Ballad Singers (Edo no hana musume jôruri)

「江戸の花娘浄瑠璃」　椿

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Chûemon (Chûsuke) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1803 (Kyôwa 3)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38 x 25.9 cm (14 15/16 x 10 3/16 in.)

Credit Line Nellie Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter

Accession Number34.259

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #419.2; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 159.1.2; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #692

DescriptionMFA impressions: *11.14245 (deaccessioned in 2012), 34.259

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks No censor's seal
改印：なし

Provenance1934, bequest of Nellie Parney Carter to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 4, 1934)