Warm, An Urban Widow of the Kansei era

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Artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi(Japanese, 1839–1892)Japanese, 1839–1892

CultureJapanese

Titles

Warm, An Urban Widow of the Kansei era
from the series Thirty-Two Aspects of Customs and Manners
Fuzoku sanjuniso: attakaso kansei nenkan choka goke no fuzoku

Date1888

MediumWoodblock print; color on kozo paper

DimensionsBlock: 14 1/4 × 9 5/8 in. (36.2 × 24.4 cm)
Sheet: 14 3/4 × 10 3/8 in. (37.5 × 26.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Maureen and Melvyn Hetzel

Object number2019.301

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Asian Art

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Provenance[Scholten Japanese Art, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2019.

Published References Keyes, Roger S. Courage and Silence: A Study of the Life and Color Woodblock Prints of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: 1839-1893, the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1983, p. 481, no. 503.5 Segi, Shinichi, Yoshitoshi: The Splendid Decadent, Kodansha International, 1985, p. 92, no. 103.5 Ing, Eric van den & Schaap, Robert. Beauty and Violence: Japanese Prints by Yoshitoshi 1839-1892, Society for Japanese Arts, 1992, p. 139, no. 63.4 Stevenson, John. Yoshitoshi’s Women: The Woodblock-Print Series Fuzoku sanjuniso. University of Washington Press, 1995, no. 4 Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Exhibition: The Last Brillian Ukiyo-e Artist, Akita Museum of Modern Art 1999, p. 45, no. 188 Ota Memorial Museum of Art 2009, p. 10, no. 1.4 Keyes, Roger S. and George Kuwayama. The Bizarre Imagery of Yoshitoshi: The Herbert R. Cole Collection, 1980, LACMA, (M.81.31.304). Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: printed in ink, center left: [Yoshitoshi ga]

Recto: printed in red ink, center left: [artist’s seal Taiso, carver’s seal (Wada hori Yu)]
Recto: printed in black ink, center left; [Meiji nijuichinen, sangatsu, nika; publisher’s date and address seal]

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