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喜多川歌麿画 「婦女人相十品」 ポペンを吹く娘
Title:Young Woman Blowing a Popen (glass noisemaker), from the series “Ten Classes of Women’s Physiognomy” (Fujo ninsō juppen)
Artist:Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, ca. 1754–1806)
Period:Edo period (1615–1868)
Date:ca. 1792–93
Culture:Japan
Medium:Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions:15 5/16 x 10 13/16 in. (38.9 x 27.5 cm)
Classification:Prints
Credit Line:H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Object Number:JP1662
Mrs. H. O. (Louisine W.) Havemeyer , New York (until d. 1929; bequeathed to MMA).
New York. Asia Society. "Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680–1860," February 27, 2008–May 4, 2008.
Edo-Tokyo Museum. "Five Ukiyo-e Favorites: Utamaro, Sharaku, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi," November 19, 2019–January 19, 2020.
Fukuoka Art Museum. "Five Ukiyo-e Favorites: Utamaro, Sharaku, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi," January 28, 2020–March 22, 2020.
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art. "Five Ukiyo-e Favorites: Utamaro, Sharaku, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi," April 2, 2020–May 31, 2020.
Meech, Julia, and Jane Oliver, eds. Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680–1860. Exh. cat. Seattle: Asia Society and Japanese Art Society of America in association with, 2008, pp. 231–32, cat. no. 128.
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