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Kyôka yomogi no shima (The Island of Eternal Life)


狂歌蓬之島
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1794 (Kansei 6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink on paper
Dimensions 21.7 x 15.9 cm
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number2011.809.1-3
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #472
ProvenanceBetween about 1897 and 1907, probably acquired in Japan by Charles J. Morse (b. 1852 - d. 1911), Evanston, IL; by descent to his son, Jared Kirtland Morse (b. 1886 - d. 1949) and his wife, Caroline Roberts Morse (b. 1907 - d. 1982), Cromwell, CT; gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 23, 2011)