Two women dressed in yellow and green fight over a piece of printed paper in front of a stream.
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Two women reach upwards from kneeling positions. They are seated on a low bamboo platform and wear green, yellow, and black clothing which tangle together as they fight. The woman closer to the viewer sits upright and holds a paper out of the reach of the other woman, who is more horizontal. There is a winding stream and some banks of rocks and grasses behind them, depicted loosely in the same green, yellow, and black. Above them there is loose Japanese text floating in the sky.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.1599
People
Ishikawa Toyonobu 石川豊信, Japanese (1711 - 1785)
Title
Young Women Fighting over a Theater Program
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
Edo period, mid 18th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/208271

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Benizuri-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Hosoban: H. 31.4 cm x W. 14.6 cm (12 3/8 x 5 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Ishikawa Toshinobu hitsu
  • inscription: Poem reads:
    ひいきしてまつはつかせそ荻のうえ
  • seal: Collector's seal: Alexis H. Rouart

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
1933.4.1599
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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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 016; pp. 40-41

Exhibition History

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