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Ehon Azuma asobi (Picture Book: Amusements of Edo)


絵本吾妻遊
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1790 (Kansei 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink on paper
Dimensions 22.5 x 15.9 cm
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number2011.800.1-3
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #470; Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 222
ProvenanceBetween about 1897 and 1907, probably acquired in Japan by Charles J. Morse (b. 1852 - d. 1911), Evanston, IL; by descent to his son, Jared Kirtland Morse (b. 1886 - d. 1949) and his wife, Caroline Roberts Morse (b. 1907 - d. 1982), Cromwell, CT; gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse to the MFA. (Accession date: August 23, 2011)