The Decorated Lantern of the Treasure Boat (Takarabune ômando no zu), from the series Female Geisha Section of the Niwaka Festival in the Yoshiwara (Seirô niwaka onna geisha)

「青楼仁和賀女芸者　宝船大万度之図」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon (Senkakudô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1797 (Kansei 9)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39.7 x 26.5 cm (15 5/8 x 10 7/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.619

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #95.1, pl. 147

DescriptionPossibly a unique impression.

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross