Print Item Number: N2.799 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Actor dressed in a woman's costume and holding onto a spear or staff, with a tree branch overhead. Main colours are blue, brown, pink and black. Several sets of black Japanese writing.
Narrative
The print is signed Hanmoto no ōju Toyokuni ga (梓元ノ応需豊国画).
Item History
- Made by Kunisada Utagawa (Maker) in Japan
- Collected between 1911 and 1930
- Owned by James Fyfe-Smith and Mary G. Fyfe-Smith
- Owned by Florence Fyfe-Smith before 1957
- Received from Florence Fyfe-Smith (Donor) during 1957
What
- Name
- Identification Number
- N2.799
- Type of Item
- Manufacturing Technique
- woodblock printed
- Overall
- height 36.0 cm, width 24.5 cm
- Image
- height 35.7 cm, width 24.2 cm
Who
- Culture
- Japanese
- Creator
- Kunisada Utagawa (Maker)
- Previous Owner
- James Fyfe-Smith, Mary G. Fyfe-Smith and Florence Fyfe-Smith
- Received from
- Florence Fyfe-Smith (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Japan
When
- Collection Date
- between 1911 and 1930
- Ownership Date
- before 1957
- Acquisition Date
- during 1957
Other
- Item Classes
- works on paper
- Condition
- fair