1933.4.581: Courtesan Kamiya Jihei and Kinokuniya Koharu, from the series True Feelings Compared: The Founts of Love (Jitsu kurabe iro no minakami)
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1933.4.581
- People
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Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, Japanese (d. 1806)
- Title
- Courtesan Kamiya Jihei and Kinokuniya Koharu, from the series True Feelings Compared: The Founts of Love (Jitsu kurabe iro no minakami)
- Other Titles
- Transliterated Title: Jitsu kurabe iro no minakami: Kamiya Jihei, Kinokuniya Koharu
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1798-1799
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/208509
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- Vertical ōban format: H. 37.7 cm x W. 24.1 cm (14 13/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: Utamaro hitsu
- inscription: Printed: Kiwame seal; Publisher's trademark and seal.
- collector's mark: Wakai Oyaji (Wakai Kenzaburō)
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
- 1933.4.581
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- John Fiorillo, "Tragedy and Laughter in the Floating World: Shinjû in the works of Utamaro and Kyôden", Andon, Society for Japanese Arts and Crafts (The Hague, Netherlands, June 1996), 54, Page 5 / Fig. 1
Exhibition History
- Masterworks of Ukiyo-e, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 07/20/1996 - 01/12/1997
Verification Level
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