The Sixth Month, Enjoying the Evening Cool in a Teahouse, from the series The Twelve Months in the Southern Quarter (Minami jūni kō)
Place
Japan (Artist's nationality:)
Date
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Overall: 39.1 × 52 cm (15 7/16 × 20 1/2 in.); Right sheet: 38.4 × 26 cm (15 1/8 × 10 1/4 in.); Left sheet: 39.1 × 26 cm (15 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number
1925.2301
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Yomiuri Shimbun, Dai Ukiyo-e Ten (Ukiyo-e: A Journey Through the Floating World) 2014, no. 126
Calza, Gain Carlo. “Ukiyoe”. Phaidon Press Limited, 2005, Page 469, color plate 276, catalog numberV.34.
Ukiyo-e Shuka, AIC v.2, page 92, cat. #50-5
Edo-Tokyo Museum, Dai Ukiyo-e Ten (Ukiyo-e: A Journey Through the Floating World), January 2 - March 2, 2014
Milan, Italy, Arthemisia and Palazzo Reale, “Ukiyoe, Il Mondo Fluttuante” at Palazzo Reale from 6 February 2004 – 30 May 2004.
Right print: John Henry Wrenn (1841–1911), Chicago; by descent to his son, Harold Brent Wrenn (1878–1938), Chicago; sold to Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, Dec. 1917; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
Left print: Edward Sylvester Morse (1838–1925); sold to Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, Apr. 1924; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
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