On top and beneath Ryogoku Bridge (Ryogokubashi no ue, shita)

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Arts of Asia

c. 1795/96

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

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro
Title: On top and beneath Ryogoku Bridge (Ryogokubashi no ue, shita)
Place: Japan (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1790–1801
Medium: Color woodblock print; oban hexaptych (one of a pair of triptychs)
Inscriptions: Publisher: Omiya Gonkuro Signature: Utamaro hitsu Publisher's seal: OMIYA
Dimensions: 38.2 × 74.6 cm (all three sheets) 38.2 × 24.8 cm (right sheet): 38.0 × 24.9 cm (center sheet); 37.9 × 25.0 cm (left sheet)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1925.2318
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Calza, Gain Carlo. “Ukiyoe”. Phaidon Press Limited, 2005, Page 471, color plate 281, catalog number V.45.

Milan, Italy, Arthemisia and Palazzo Reale, “Ukiyoe, Il Mondo Fluttuante” at Palazzo Reale from 6 February 2004 – 30 May 2004.
SOC9356, 7/26/1995 - The British Museum, Department of Japanese Antiquities, London, England, for exhibit, “Kitagawa Utamaro”, The British Museum, 8/31 - 10/22/1995 and Chiba City Musuem of Art, Chiba City, Japan, 11/3 - 12/17/1995.

Yamanaka & Company; sold to Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, Dec. 1913; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.

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