Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 57377

Seller of fan-papers ( Jigami-uri ) and a young beauty from an untitled series of eight prints pu

Artist / 作者
Kitagawa Utamaro喜多川歌麿
Date / 年代
1797
Medium / 技法
浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / kruml
Digital record / 画像記録
393 × 576 px
Source collection / 所蔵元
Japanese Prints London
Published by / 公開者
黒川トウマ
Rights / 権利
No commercial-app permission documented
Attribution / 表記
Japanese Prints London

Catalog note / 解説

A seller of fan-papers ( Jigami-uri ) and a young beauty from an untitled series of eight prints published c1797 by Tsuruya Kiemon. The idealised itinerant merchant has black fan-shaped lacquer boxes perched on his shoulder. In his hand he holds a fan with an image of Daruma eyeing the couple. The set has some excellent designs: see The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro, Shugo Asano and Timothy Clark, 1995, no. 263, p. 141, for another. Two other illustrated ( trimmed ) examples of this print are in: Ukiyo Zuten, Kiyoshi Shibui, No 13, p.77, no.2 and Utamaro Zenshu, Yoshida, p.127 Fine impression. Extremely good, unfaded colour. Full size. Extremely good condition. Au verso small Japanese…

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