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Photo: Susan Cole
Picture of the Middle Class (Chubon no zu), from the series Three Ranks of Young Women according to Their Fashions (Fuzoku sandan musume)
Photo: Susan Cole

Picture of the Middle Class (Chubon no zu), from the series Three Ranks of Young Women according to Their Fashions (Fuzoku sandan musume)

Dateca. 1795
Label TextThe figures in this Utamaro print are stylish women of the urban middle class, probably the well-to-do daughters of an Edo merchant. Wearing loose summer robes, they are admiring a sweet flag plant in a water basin. The courtesans of the Yoshiwara district were trendsetters, and wealthy commoners like these young women of the middle class quickly adopted their tastes in fashion. --Catherine Roche, Curatorial Associate, 2010
Object number2017.23.5
ProvenanceCollection of Florine Ebstein Langweil (1861-1958), Paris, France; Adolphe Stoclet (1871-1949), Brussels, Belgium; [Sotheby’s, London, Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books & Paintings from The Adolphe Stoclet Collection, June 8, 2004, sale no. L04753, lot no. 206, reproduced p. 117]; purchased at auction by [Israel Goldman Japanese Prints, London, England]; purchased from gallery by Allan Kollar, Seattle, Washington, 2004; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2017
Photo CreditPhoto: Susan Cole
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, SAM at 75: Building a Collection for Seattle, May 5 - Sept. 9, 2007. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Fleeting Beauty: Japanese Woodblock Prints, Apr. 1 - July 4, 2010. Text by Catherine Roche. Cat. no. 20, reproduced p. 43.
Credit LineGift of Mary and Allan Kollar, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
Dimensions15 3/8 x 10 1/2 in. (39.1 x 26.7 cm)
MediumWoodblock print; ink and color on paper
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Sugawara of the Tsuruya House with Two Attendants, from the series Models for Fashion
ca. 1775
Object number: 2013.31.6
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Fujikawa (Fujikawa), from the series Pictures of Famous Places on the Fifty-three Stations (Gojusan-tsugi meisho zue)
1855
Object number: 2017.23.21
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
The Actor Onoe Matsutake I in the Role of a Young Woman of Fashion
1780s
Object number: 2013.31.9
Photo: Susan Cole
Sudden Rain, Shono (Shono haku-u), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan-tsugi no uchi)
ca. 1832-34
Object number: 2017.23.18
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Mie River, Yokkaichi (Yokkaichi, Miegawa), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan-tsugi no uchi)
ca. 1832-34
Object number: 2017.23.17
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Night Snow, Kambara (Kambara, yoru no yuki), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojûsan-tsugi no uchi)
ca. 1832-34
Object number: 2017.23.16
Photo: Scott Leen
Deep water at the Division into the Three Forks, from the series One Hundred Views of Edo
1857
Object number: 2023.11.79
Photo: Susan Cole
Praying for Rain (Amagoi), from the series Seven Fashionable Scenes from the Life of Komachi (Furyu nana Komachi)
ca. 1795
Object number: 2014.32.1
Photo: William Wickett
South Wind, Clear Dawn (Gaifu kaisei), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830-32
Object number: 2010.15
Image Not Available for Tago Beach near Eijiri on the Tokaido Highway, Simplified View (Tokaido Eijiri tago-no-ura ryakuzu), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Tago Beach near Eijiri on the Tokaido Highway, Simplified View (Tokaido Eijiri tago-no-ura ryakuzu), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830-33
Object number: 2010.47.2
Image Not Available for Rainstorm beneath the Summit (Sanka haku-u), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Rainstorm beneath the Summit (Sanka haku-u), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830-32
Object number: 2010.47.3
Image Not Available for The Poem of Sangi Hitoshi (Minamoto no Hitoshi), from the series One Hundred Poets, One Verse Each, as Told by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
The Poem of Sangi Hitoshi (Minamoto no Hitoshi), from the series One Hundred Poets, One Verse Each, as Told by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1838
Object number: 2010.47.4