1933.4.608: Pink Octopus and Three Dancing Women from the series Glorious Amusements of the Brothel Niwaka Festival (Seiro Niwaka zensei asobi)
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1933.4.608
- People
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Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, Japanese (d. 1806)
- Title
- Pink Octopus and Three Dancing Women from the series Glorious Amusements of the Brothel Niwaka Festival (Seiro Niwaka zensei asobi)
- Other Titles
- Transliterated Title: Seiro Niwaka zensei asobi
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- Late Edo period, circa 1800-1806
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/208782
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "aiban" format; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- H. 31.5 x W. 23 cm (12 3/8 x 9 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: (printed) Utamaro hitsu
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
- 1933.4.608
- 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 091; p. 100 (entry p. 189)
Verification Level
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