Travellers on the Road at Miho no Matsubara

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Travellers on the Road at Miho no Matsubara

三保の松原道中

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1787–88 (Tenmei 7–8)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 38 x 51 cm (14 15/16 x 20 1/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.7435-6

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #38; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #7.1-2, pls. 24-5; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 4.1.1-2; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #49 (L); Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #C18, pl. CXXIII (L)

DescriptionDiptych: 21.7435 (left), 21.7436 (right)

MFA impressions: 11.14396 (left sheet only), 21.7435-6 (complete diptych)

Signed Utamaro ga (on each sheet)
歌麿画

ProvenanceSeptember 1911, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from the E. F. Fenollosa collection; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.