Edo prints
| Design: | Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) | |||||
| Title: | Woman threading a needle and girl playing music | |||||
| Size: | 36 x 24 cm (ōban) | |||||
| Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Artist’s signature in right print area:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 歌 | uta | poem | |
| 麿 | maro | you | Drawn by |
| 筆 | hitsu | writing brush | Utamaro |
Publisher seal of Tsuruya Kiemon in bottom right print area, see Marks (2011, page 43, seal 08-016).
References
- Marks, Andreas (2011). Publishers of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Compendium. Leiden: Hotei Publishing.
Provenance: An auction held on the 16th of December 2009 by and at the The National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, the Netherlands