1933.4.589: Hour of the Rat [midnight]: The Mistress (Ne no koku, mekake), from the series A Clock of the Customs of Beauties (Fūzoku bijin tokei)
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1933.4.589
- People
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Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, Japanese (d. 1806)
Published by Izumiya Ichibei 和泉屋市兵衛
- Title
- Hour of the Rat [midnight]: The Mistress (Ne no koku, mekake), from the series A Clock of the Customs of Beauties (Fūzoku bijin tokei)
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 「子ノ刻 妾 風俗美人時計」
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1798-1799
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Tōkyō
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/208538
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
- Technique
- Woodblock print
- Dimensions
- Vertical ōban: H. 38.6 cm x W. 26.3 cm (15 3/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: Utamaro hitsu
- seal: Publisher's seal: Izumiya Ichibei (泉市版)
- signature: Signature: Utamaro hitsu (歌麿筆)
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
- 1933.4.589
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 61, p. 60
Exhibition History
- Masterworks of Ukiyo-e, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 07/20/1996 - 01/12/1997
- 32Q: 2700 Impressionism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/12/2016 - 08/11/2016
Verification Level
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