Yoshiwara Picture Book: Annual Events, or Annals of the Green Houses, (Seirō ehon nenjū gyōji)

Arts of Asia

1804

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿
Japanese, 1753 (?)-1806

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Department: Arts of Asia

Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro
Title: Yoshiwara Picture Book: Annual Events, or Annals of the Green Houses, (Seirō ehon nenjū gyōji), 青楼絵本年中行事
Place: Japan (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1794-1814
Medium: Color woodblock-printed book
Inscriptions: Jippensha Ikku (Author)
Dimensions: 22.8 × 16 cm (9 × 6 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 2022.1402
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Utamaro, AIC, April-May,2006

Mrs. Louise Norton Brown, Japan, c. 1913 to at least 1915 [according to, “Preface” and “Chapter XII”, in Louise Norton Brown, Block Printing and Book-Illustration in Japan From the Earliest Period to the Twentieth Century; this and the following according to Frederick Gookin, “Preface,” in Kenji Toda, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese and Chinese Illustrated Books in the Ryerson Library at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1931), iv, and Accession Book: 1-62, 112, 1884?-1955, Ryerson Art Library, Art Institute of Chicago]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Lake Geneva, WI, 1926; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1926-1932.

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