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遊女集 「丁子屋内 千山 いそぢ やそぢ」
Senzan of the Chôjiya, kamuro Isoji and Yasoji
遊女集 「丁子屋内 千山 いそぢ やそぢ」
Japanese
Edo period
about 1795 (Kansei 7)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 38.4 x 25 cm (15 1/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14401
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Utamaro’s tall, slender figures are ideal for modeling gorgeous kimono, such as the robe decorated with peach blossoms and toy dogs that the courtesan Senzan, one of the beauties of the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter, has donned for the Doll Festival. One of her two kamuro (child attendants) holds a doll, and flowering cherry trees (which blossomed shortly after the peach trees) are already in full bloom overhead.
Catalogue Raisonné
Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #212.2; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964),198.1.2; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #175; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #183
Signed
Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
歌麿筆
Marks
Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極
改印：極
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.