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Love that Rarely Meets (Mare ni au koi) from the series Anthology of Poems: the Love Section (Kasen koi no bu)

(Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
about 1793–94 (Kansei 5–6)
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (nishiki-e); ink, color and mica on paper
DimensionsVertical ôban; 37.9 x 25.3 cm (14 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit LineNellie Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter
Accession number34.257
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
Provenance1934, bequest of Nellie Parney Carter to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 4, 1934)
Beauty and Komusô
Kitagawa Utamaro I
about 1793 (Kansei 5)
Page 10
Kitagawa Utamaro I
1789 (Tenmei 9/Kansei 1)
Shiohi no tsuto (Gifts from the Ebb Tide)
Kitagawa Utamaro I
1789 (Tenmei 9/Kansei 1)
Courtesan with Child Attendant
Kitagawa Utamaro I
first half of Kansei era (1789 - 1801)
Kitagawa Utamaro I