The Beauty Ohisa Yale University Art Gallery

mid-1790s

Medium: Ukiyo-e: polychrome woodblock print; silver mica residue in background
Dimensions: sheet: 14 1/2 × 9 15/16 in. (36.8 × 25.2 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of J. Watson Webb, B.A. 1907, and Electra Havemeyer Webb
Accession Number: 1942.74
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: Prints
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Provenance

James Watson Webb (1884–1960) and Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888–960) Collection, Burlington, VT; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1942

Bibliography

Shauna J. Goodwin, The Shape of Chic: Fashion and Hairstyles in the Floating World, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), no. 18

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Inscriptions

The poems on the top left are undeciphered.

Signed

Utamaro hitsu (brushed by Utamaro) preceded by a kiwame censor seal and a Tsutaya seal. (哥麿筆)

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