Mistress Style (Mekake fû), from the series The Connoisseur of Present-day Customs (Tôsei fûzoku tsû)

「当世風俗通　妾風」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Moriya Jihei (Kinshindô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1801 (Kansei 13/Kyôwa 1)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.7 x 24.9 cm (14 7/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Captain John C. Phillips

Accession Number18.296

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #469.2, pl. 193; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 98.3.2; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #673

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks No censor's seal
改印：なし

Provenance1918, gift of Captain John C. Phillips to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 16, 1918)