A Low Class Prostitute (Gun [teppo]), from the series “Five Shades of Ink in the Northern Quarter" ("Hokkoku goshiki-zumi") by Kitagawa Utamaro
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A Low Class Prostitute (Gun [teppo]), from the series “Five Shades of Ink in the Northern Quarter" ("Hokkoku goshiki-zumi")

Kitagawa Utamaro · c. 1794/95

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Alexander G. Mosle (1863–1945), Germany; sold to Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, May 31, 1928; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1928.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Edo-Tokyo Museum, Five Ukiyo-e Favorites: Utamaro, Sharaku, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi, Nov 19, 2019 - Jan 19, 2020.; Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan 28 - Feb 27, 2020 (cut short due to pandemic).
  • Edo-Tokyo Museum, Dai Ukiyo-e Ten (Ukiyo-e: A Journey Through the Floating World), January 2 - March 2, 2014
  • SOC9448, 1/22/1996 - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, for exhibit, "The Women of the Pleasure Quater" at Worcester Art Museum, 2/24/1996 - 5/5/1996.
  • SOC9356, 7/26/1995 - The British Museum, Department of Japanese Antiquities, London, England, for exhibit, "Kitagawa Utamaro", The British Museum, 8/31 - 10/22/1995 and Chiba City Musuem of Art, Chiba City, Japan, 11/3 - 12/17/1995.

Literature

Published references

  • Yomiuri Shimbun, Dai Ukiyo-e Ten (Ukiyo-e: A Journey Through the Floating World) 2014, no. 157
  • Screech, Timon, "The Edo Pleasure Districts as 'Pornotopia,'" Orientations (November 2002), pp. 36-41, fig. 1 and cover illustration.

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