Print Item Number: N2.1174 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Print showing a scene with a man and a woman. The woman is resting on the floor with her body angled toward the left while her head is turned up to the right. She is holding a long white cloth in her upraised left hand and a blue mirror(?) in her right hand. Her robe has a green floral print. The man is standing on the right rolling his right sleeve up with his left hand. His head is turned down toward the left side. He is wearing a robe with a brown, grey, and black striped pattern. In the upper right corner, there is a wall with wallpaper, a window, and straw. The background is white. The print is made of two vertically rectangular pieces adhered to a horizontally rectangular paper. Each has sets of Japanese characters: the artist's signature, a circular red seal, and on the right side two circular black censor seals.
Narrative
Prints have circular black censor seals, known as aratame-in (改印) or kiwame-in (極印). Signed Hanmoto no ōju Toyokuni ga (梓元ノ応需豊国画) with a red circular seal known as toshidama-in (年玉印).
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
- N2.1174
- Type of Item
- Manufacturing Technique
- woodblock printed
- Overall
- height 45.7 cm, width 60.6 cm
- Image
- height 36.3 cm, width 49.9 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