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Perspective view of a busy crowded street filled with people and wooden structures on both sides.　

People 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
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
print
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
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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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