The Courtesan Kiyokawa, Karigane Bunshichi, and Kaminari Shôkurô, from the series Models of Love Talk: Clouds Form over the Moon (Chiwa kagami tsuki no murakumo)
「千話鏡月の村雲 契情清川 かりかね文七 雷り庄九郎」
Japanese
Edo period
about 1800 (Kansei 12)
Artist Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806), Publisher Yamaguchiya Chûemon (Chûsuke) (Japanese)
Catalogue Raisonné
Asano and Clark 1995, #349; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #414.5; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 101.2.1; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #373
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 39.4 x 26.7 cm (15 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.)
Accession Number
11.14352
Medium or Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Not On View
Collections
Classifications
Signed
Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Markings
No censor's seal
改印：なし
Provenance
By 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.
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection