Kajiwara Genta and the courtesan Umagae, from the series True Feelings Compared: Wellsprings of Love
Kitagawa Utamaro, Kajiwara Genta and the courtesan Umagae, from the series True Feelings Compared: Wellsprings of Love, ca. 1798/1799, color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e, The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection, public domain, 32.298
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- Title
Kajiwara Genta and the courtesan Umagae, from the series True Feelings Compared: Wellsprings of Love
- Related Titles
catalog entry: Kajiwara Genta and the courtesan Umagae, from the series Jitsu kurabe iro no minakami (True Feelings Compared: Wellsprings of Love)
display title (original language): 梶原源太 傾城梅が枝 實競色乃美名家見
series (translated): True Feelings Compared: Wellsprings of Love
series (transliterated): Jitsu kurabe iro no minakami
- Artist
- Related People
publisher: Nishimura Chō (Japanese, active Edo ca. 1798-1810)
- Date
ca. 1798/1799
- Period
Japan: Edo period (1615-1868)
- Medium
color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 14 7/16 in x 9 5/8 in; sheet: 14 15/16 in x 9 3/4 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
publisher's mark: 巴 長版, printed in black ink, center left, within block Transliteration: tomoe, chô han Language: Japanese Description: the character 巴 beneath a stylized single mountain peak, above a square cartouche containing the seal script for the characters 長版 - mark of the publisher Nishimuraya Chô
censor's mark: 極, printed in black ink, center left, within block Transliteration (Translation): kiwame (approved) Language: Japanese
signature: 哥麿筆, printed in black ink, center left, within block Transliteration (Translation): Utamaro hitsu (by Utamaro) Language: Japanese
inscription: 梶原源太 傾城梅が枝, printed in black ink, within block, top left Transliteration (Translation): Kajiwara Genta keisei Umegae (Kajiwara Genta and the courtesan Umagae) Language: Japanese Description: title
inscription: 實競色乃美名家見, printed in black ink, within vertical rectangular cartouche, top left Transliteration (Translation): Jitsu kurabe iro no minakami (True Feelings Compared: Wellsprings of Love) Language: Japanese Description: series title
- Collection Area
Asian Art; Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
Japanese Traditional Prints
- Object Type
relief print
- Culture
Japanese
- Credit Line
The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection
- Accession Number
32.298
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
- Exhibitions
2011 The Artist's Touch, The Craftsman's Hand: Three Centuries of Japanese Prints from the Portland Art Museum Portland Art Museum