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Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806) Shioi no tsuto (Gifts from the Ebb Tide), circa 1789 image 1
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Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806)
Shioi no tsuto (Gifts from the Ebb Tide), circa 1789

18 March 2015, 13:00 EDT
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Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806)

Shioi no tsuto (Gifts from the Ebb Tide), circa 1789
Illustrated kyoka anthology, one volume, color woodblock with mica and brass dust; consisting of ten leaves: one double-page preface, eight double-page illustrations, and one double-page postscript with colophon signed Kitagawa Utamaro zu and sealed Jisei ikke, publisher notation of Koshodo Tsutaya Juzaburo shi, circa 1789 – very good impression (lacks the purple wave pattern and green ground [illustrations of sea shells]), very good color, some soiling and mica losses, small tears at the edges of the center fold, rebound, wear to original dark blue cover with traces of ink notation to the reverse
9 7/8 x 7 1/2in (25 x 19cm)

Footnotes

An exhaustive discussion, complete with transliteration of the texts, together with impressions of copies of this celebrated book in the collections of Israel Goldman and the British Museum (JH158 (2979.3.5.0158), is published in Shugo Asano and Timothy Clark, The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro, Tokyo, 1995, vol. 1, pp. 259-261 and vol. 2, pp. 224-227, no. 466-467. For comparison with the three copies in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, see http://www.mfa.org/collections/search?search_api_views_fulltext=tsuto.

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