Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Sugawara of the Tsuruya, from the series Five Colors of Ink in the Pleasure Quarters (Seirô goshikizumi)


「青楼五色墨 鶴屋内 菅原」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Japanese
Edo period
1805 (Bunka 2), 12th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.8 x 24 cm (14 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—Chinese Expedition, 1923–24
Accession NumberRES.54.50
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionUnidentified publisher's mark, Genshoku #972.
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks Censor's seals: kiwame, Ox 12
改印:極
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)