Beauty Contest of the Time Artist: Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786–1865)

before 1844

Asian Art

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Ukiyo-e: polychrome woodblock print

Dimensions

framed: 20 3/8 × 16 1/8 in. (51.8 × 41 cm)
sheet: 14 9/16 × 9 9/16 in. (37 × 24.3 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of John F. O'Brien

Accession Number

2017.50.31

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
John F. O'Brien, Mt. Pleasant, SC; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2016
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2017), 19
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Inscriptions

Tosei Bijin kurabe; a combination of two seals for a censor (undecipherable from photos but could be Yonera and Murata) and publisher seal of ivy with a dot under the mountain of Tsutaya Kichizo (active 1802-Meiji)

Signed

Kochoro Kunisada ga

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