Woman Holding a Round Fan
Artist
Kitagawa Utamaro I 喜多川 歌麿
(Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisherpublished by
Kōshodō 耕書堂
(Japanese, 1750–1797)
Dateabout 1793
MediumColor woodblock print in red and green (benizuri-e)
DimensionsAiban; 35.1 x 23.8 cm (13 13/16 x 9 3/8 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineJohn Chandler Bancroft Collection
Terms
Object number1901.278
DescriptionHalf-length portrait of Ohisa of the Takashima-ya tea-house, who is shown facing toward the left and holding in her hands an uchiwa (round fan) that bears the trade-mark of the house. That trade-mark, a conventionalized tsuta (ivy) leaf, appears also, upon the shoulders and sleeves ofthe gauze kimono that she wears.On View
Not on view
Utagawa Kunisada I 歌川 国貞 (Toyokuni III 三代 豊国)
late 1822
Kitagawa Utamaro I 喜多川 歌麿
about 1794–1795
