print
- Museum number
- 1937,0710,0.72
- Title
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Object: Eon Hoshi 恵恩芳子 (The Priest Huiyuan)
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Series: Kokei ni sansho 児戯意乃三笑 (Three Laughers at Children's Playful Spirits)
- Description
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Colour woodblock print. One composition of three designs. Mother and child amusing themselves looking at their reflections in stone water-basin. Inscribed and signed.
- Production date
- 1802 (ca.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 38.10 centimetres
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Width: 25.40 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Asano and Clark 1995
A mother and child amusing themselves looking at their reflections in a stone water-basin. The name of Priest Huiyuan is written with punning characters meaning "your benevolent, kind child".
Literature:
Shibui, Kiyoshi 渋井清, 'Ukiyo-e zuten, vol. 13: Utamaro' 「ウキヨエ図典13 歌麿」, Kazama Shobo, Tokyo, 1964, pl. 149-2-1.
"Kitagawa Utamaro sakuhin mokuroku" 「喜多川歌麿作品目録」, 'Ukiyo-e shuka', 「浮世絵聚花」, vol. 3 (Bosuton Bijutsukan III ボストン美術館3), Shogakkan, Tokyo, 1978, pp. 235-254, pl. 218-1.
Other impressions:
Musée National des Art Asiatiques-Guimet, Paris.
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge (Mass.) (2 impressions).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.
Tokyo National Museum 東京国立博物館.
[Main text translated in Japanese below / 以下上記本文日本語訳]
浅野/クラーク 1995
手水鉢の水面に顔を写して遊んでいる母と子。恵恩芳子は慧遠法師のもじりである
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2010 22 Sep-14 Nov, Birmingham, Ikon Gallery, 'Kitagawa Utamaro'
2011 Feb 14- Jun 13, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'
- Associated titles
Associated Title: 虎渓三笑 (Three Laughers of Tiger Ravine) (ancient Chinese legend)
- Acquisition date
- 1937
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1937,0710,0.72