1933.4.486: Perspective View of Shin Yoshiwara in the Evening (Uki-e Shin Yoshiwara yūgure zu)
PrintsPeople fill the street, most of them dressed in robes and kimonos, a few carry cylindrical lanterns on a handle. Some people spill out of a doorway on the left. Many of the women have their kimono obi sash tied in the front. A wooden canopy structure stretches across the street, like a gateway. A man on the right carries away two large boxes on a stick across his left shoulder while looking around. Colors of the print include deep green, salmon-pink or faded red, light browns, and black. Vertical black calligraphy is drawn along the right edge.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1933.4.486
- People
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Utagawa Toyoharu 歌川豊春, Japanese (Bungo Province 1735 - 1814)
- Title
- Perspective View of Shin Yoshiwara in the Evening (Uki-e Shin Yoshiwara yūgure zu)
- Other Titles
- Transliterated Title: Uki-e Shin Yoshiwara yūgure zu
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1770s
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/207195
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- ōban: H. 26.4 × W. 39.4 cm (10 3/8 × 15 1/2 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
- Accession Year
- 1933
- Object Number
- 1933.4.486
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Narazaki Muneshige, Ukiyo-e shuka [Collection of the Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e Prints in Museums] Volume 8: Foggu Bijutsukan [Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University], Neruson Bijutsukan [Nelson Atkins Museum]..., Shogaku-kan (Tokyo, Japan, 1980 [Showa 55]), Color Plate 078; p. 97 (entry p. 188)
- Ayano Nomura, "The Uki-e Oeuvre of Utagawa Toyoharu", Ukiyo-e Art: The Journal of International Ukiyo-e Society (Ukiyoe geijutsu), Nihon Ukiyoe Kyôkai (Tokyo, Japan, January 20th, 2014), no. 167, pp. 5-38, p. 11, fig. 13.
Exhibition History
Verification Level
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