Yamauba Tying Kintaro's Top Knot While He Makes Faces in the Mirror

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Yamauba Tying Kintaro's Top Knot While He Makes Faces in the Mirror

山姥と金太郎　髪結い、あかんべい

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

Japanese

Edo period

about 1795–1805 (Kansei 7–Bunka 2)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37 x 25 cm (14 9/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Captain John C. Phillips

Accession Number18.313

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #720; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 209.1.2; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #385; similar design: Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #259

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)