Shiohi no tsuto (Gifts from the Ebb Tide)

潮干のつと

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

Japanese

Edo period

1789 (Tenmei 9/Kansei 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock-printed book; ink, color, mica, and brass dust on paper

Dimensions Overall: 27.2 x 19.1 cm (10 11/16 x 7 1/2 in.); ôbon
Other (open): 27 x 38.6 cm (10 5/8 x 15 3/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number1997.953

NOT ON VIEW

Catalogue Raisonné MFA Highlights: Arts of Japan (2008), p. 167; Keyes, Ehon (2006), #25; Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #466-7

ProvenanceDecember 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the library of the Museum. (Accession Date: April 19, 2002)