Artist, Block Carver, Applying Sizing (Eshi, hangashi, dosa-biki), from the series The Cultivation of Brocade Prints, a Famous Product of Edo (Edo meibutsu nishiki-e kosaku)

Arts of Asia

About 1803

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

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Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro
Title: Artist, Block Carver, Applying Sizing (Eshi, hangashi, dosa-biki), from the series The Cultivation of Brocade Prints, a Famous Product of Edo (Edo meibutsu nishiki-e kosaku)
Origin: Japan
Date: 1798–1808
Medium: Color woodblock prints; oban triptych
Dimensions: 38.5 × 74.4 cm (all three sheets) 38.2 × 24.8 cm (left sheet) 38.3 × 25 cm (center sheet) 38.5 × 25.6 cm (right sheet)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1939.2141

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