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Mother Lifting a Child to a Plum Tree (from the series Chinese and Japanese Poems by Seven Year Old Girls of Recent Times)

late 1790s

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

(Japanese, c. 1754–1806)
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Medium
color woodblock print
Measurements
Sheet: 52.1 x 23.4 cm (20 1/2 x 9 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.1144
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Print
A vertically oriented color woodblock print on tan paper depicts a woman on the left lifting a child toward flowering tree branches. She wears a tan and blue patterned robe with her hair in a high bun. On the right, a girl in a salmon robe with a large green sash stands facing away. Several columns of black script flank the figures against the neutral background.

Mother Lifting a Child to a Plum Tree (from the series Chinese and Japanese Poems by Seven Year Old Girls of Recent Times)

late 1790s

Kitagawa Utamaro

(Japanese, c. 1754–1806)
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

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