Celebrating Ebisuko
Artist
Kitagawa Utamaro I 喜多川 歌麿
(Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisherpublished by
Tsutaya Juzaburō 蔦屋 重三郎 (Kōshodō 耕書堂)
(Japanese, 1750–1797)
Dateabout 1780s
Mediummulticolored woodblock print
Dimensions32.1 x 21.6 cm (12 5/8 x 8 1/2 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineJohn Chandler Bancroft Collection
Object number1901.59.2366
DescriptionThe middle sheet, much trimmed on both sides and at the foot, of an early triptych by Utamaro which has not come under observation by the writer of this catalogue. In front of a fusuma (sliding partition) in a tea-house, a woman stands holding an iron sake kettle, and is looking at another woman who is seated and holds a sake kettle of a different shape and pale yellow in colour.On View
Not on view
Kitagawa Utamaro I 喜多川 歌麿
about 1794–1795
