Skip to main content
Advanced Search
Five Beauties Playing Go (from right): Tachibanaya Otatsu, Naniwaya Okita, Tomimoto Toyohina, Takashima Ohisa, Hiranoya Oseyo
Five Beauties Playing Go (from right): Tachibanaya Otatsu, Naniwaya Okita, Tomimoto Toyohina, Takashima Ohisa, Hiranoya Oseyo

Five Beauties Playing Go (from right): Tachibanaya Otatsu, Naniwaya Okita, Tomimoto Toyohina, Takashima Ohisa, Hiranoya Oseyo

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Maruya Bun'emon (Bunjudô) (Japanese)
about 1793–94 (Kansei 5–6)
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (key block print, kôgôzuri); ink on paper
DimensionsHorizontal ôban; 27.3 x 39.8 cm (10 3/4 x 15 11/16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—Chinese Expedition, 1923–24
Accession number54.270
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)
Debut of a Geisha (Geisha hirome no zu), from the book Seirô ehon nenjû gyôji (Picturebook of Annual Events in the Yoshiwara)
Debut of a Geisha (Geisha hirome no zu), from the book Seirô ehon nenjû gyôji (Picturebook of Annual Events in the Yoshiwara)
Kitagawa Utamaro I
1804 (Kyôwa 4/Bunka 1)
First Meeting (Shokai no zu), from the book Seirô ehon nenjû gyôji (Picturebook of Annual Events in the Yoshiwara)
First Meeting (Shokai no zu), from the book Seirô ehon nenjû gyôji (Picturebook of Annual Events in the Yoshiwara)
Kitagawa Utamaro I
1804 (Kyôwa 4/Bunka 1)
Party for the Intimate Customer (Irokyaku no zashiki), from the book Seirô ehon nenjû gyôji (Picturebook of Annual Events in the Yoshiwara)
Party for the Intimate Customer (Irokyaku no zashiki), from the book Seirô ehon nenjû gyôji (Picturebook of Annual Events in the Yoshiwara)
Kitagawa Utamaro I
1804 (Kyôwa 4/Bunka 1)
Parting the Next Morning (Kôchô kinuginu no zu), from the book Seirô ehon nenjû gyôji (Picturebook of Annual Events in the Yoshiwara)
Parting the Next Morning (Kôchô kinuginu no zu), from the book Seirô ehon nenjû gyôji (Picturebook of Annual Events in the Yoshiwara)
Kitagawa Utamaro I
1804 (Kyôwa 4/Bunka 1)
Pounding Dough for New Year Ricecakes (Mochizuki no zu), from the book Seirô ehon nenjû gyôji (Picturebook of Annual Events in the Yoshiwara)
Pounding Dough for New Year Ricecakes (Mochizuki no zu), from the book Seirô ehon nenjû gyôji (Picturebook of Annual Events in the Yoshiwara)
Kitagawa Utamaro I
1804 (Kyôwa 4/Bunka 1)
Lovers Parting in the Morning, from the series Elegant Five-Needled Pine (Fûryû goyô no matsu)
Lovers Parting in the Morning, from the series Elegant Five-Needled Pine (Fûryû goyô no matsu)
Kitagawa Utamaro I
Tsukioka and Hinakoto of the Hyôgoya
Tsukioka and Hinakoto of the Hyôgoya
Kitagawa Tsukimaro (Kikumaro)
Women in a Boat, Imitating Three Lucky Gods (Sanpukujin)
Women in a Boat, Imitating Three Lucky Gods (Sanpukujin)
Utagawa Toyokuni I
Conservation Status: After Treatment
Mishima: Morning Mist (Mishima, asagiri), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô
Utagawa Hiroshige I
about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)
The Nagata Riding Grounds, the Sannô Shrine, and the Paulownia Plantation at Tameike (Nagata-no-baba Sannô no yashiro Tameike kiribatake), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)
The Nagata Riding Grounds, the Sannô Shrine, and the Paulownia Plantation at Tameike (Nagata-no-baba Sannô no yashiro Tameike kiribatake), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)
Utagawa Hiroshige I
1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)
Fisherman in a Boat with a Scoop Net Passing Mimeguri Inari Shrine
Fisherman in a Boat with a Scoop Net Passing Mimeguri Inari Shrine
Utagawa Hiroshige I
Sea Bream and Sansho Pepper, from an untitled series known as Large Fish
Sea Bream and Sansho Pepper, from an untitled series known as Large Fish
Utagawa Hiroshige I
about 1832–33 (Tenpô 3–4)