1933.4.1740: The Six States of Woman (Six Courtesans Representing Six Poets)
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1933.4.1740
- People
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Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Japanese (1760 - 1849)
- Title
- The Six States of Woman (Six Courtesans Representing Six Poets)
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- print, surimono
- Date
- Edo period, 1798
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/208006
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed surimono in "yoko-chūban" format; ink, color and metallic pigment on paper
- Dimensions
- Paper: H. 19.2 cm x W. 25.5 cm (7 9/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: (printed) Hokusai Sori ga
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
- Accession Year
- 1933
- Object Number
- 1933.4.1740
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Theodore Robert Bowie and James T. Kenney, Art of the Surimono, exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum (Bloomington, IN, 1979), Cat. No. 092 / pp. 152-153
- Donald Jenkins, The Floating World Revisited, exh. cat., Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR, 1993), pp. 202-203 / Cat. No. IV-9
Verification Level
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