Akashi Bay (Akashi no ura), from the album Kyôgetsubô (The Moon-mad Monk, or Crazy Gazing at the Moon) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Akashi Bay (Akashi no ura), from the album Kyôgetsubô (The Moon-mad Monk, or Crazy Gazing at the Moon)

Akashi Bay (Akashi no ura), from the album Kyôgetsubô (The Moon-mad Monk, or Crazy Gazing at the Moon)

狂月坊　明石の浦

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

Japanese

Edo period

1789 (Tenmei 9/Kansei 1), 8th month

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.9 x 38.1 cm (10 3/16 x 15 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.6524

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #468.1

Signed (this page unsigned)

ProvenanceFebruary 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from J. Clarence Webster Collection; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.