![Hour of the Hare [6am] (U no koku), from the series “The Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara” ("Seiro juni toki tsuzuki") by Kitagawa Utamaro](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/a9a8d8c0-e642-2335-2538-b61cdd915c94/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
Hour of the Hare [6am] (U no koku), from the series “The Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara” ("Seiro juni toki tsuzuki")
Kitagawa Utamaro · c. 1794
Provenance
Ownership history
- Baron Sumitomo Tomoito (1865–1926). With Yamanaka & Company; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, June 1913; by descent to his sisters Lucy Maud Buckingham (1870–1920) and Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, 1913; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- 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.
- The Floating World Revisited 1993
- Portland, 10/26/93-12/30/93, Cleveland 2/2/94-4/3/94
Literature
Published references
- Judith A. Barter, ed., <em>Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 73, fig. 31 (ill.).
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