Accession Number1972/2.116
TitleMeisho koshikake hakkei: Young woman with a glass goblet
Artist(s)Kitagawa UtamaroArtist NationalityJapanese (culture or style)Object Creation Datemid 1790sMedium & Supportcolor woodblock print on paper with mica groundDimensions 14 3/4 in. x 10 in. ( 37.5 cm x 25.4 cm )
Credit LineTransfer from the College of Architecture and DesignLabel copyThis print is from a series of bust portraits of famous tea-house beauties. The inscribed comic poem on this print reads:
In the spring breeze
Is a fragrance more lovely
Than a branch of plum
The poem suggests that the beauty in the print works at the Plum Tea-house. The glass goblet would still have been a rarity in Utamaro’s time. Although the pigment on this piece has faded, it is considered a rare work of the artist.
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Keywords
calligraphy
goblets
ukiyo e