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Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Hands inside the Sleeves (Futokorode), from the series Eight Views of Tea Stalls in Celebrated Places (Meisho koshikake hakkei)
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn

Hands inside the Sleeves (Futokorode), from the series Eight Views of Tea Stalls in Celebrated Places (Meisho koshikake hakkei)

Dateca. 1795-96
Maker Kitagawa Utamaro Japanese, 1754 - 1806
Label TextThe "Eight Views" was a popular conceit in Chinese and Japanese poetry and painting. Artists often depicted eight views of famous places immortalized in classical poetry. Here, however, Utamaro gives us eight tea stalls-or rather, their waitresses-who often supplied more than food and drink. In this print the waitress smiles downward at an unseen client. --Catherine Roche, Curatorial Associate, 2010
Object number2017.23.6
Provenance[Sotheby’s, London, Japanese Works of Art, Prints & Paintings, Nov. 9, 2006, sale no. L06861, lot no. 754, reproduced p. 754]; purchased at auction by Allan Kollar, Seattle, Washington, 2006; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2017
Photo CreditPhoto: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Fleeting Beauty: Japanese Woodblock Prints, Apr. 1 - July 4, 2010. Text by Catherine Roche. Cat. no. 21, reproduced p. 44. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Legends, Tales, Poetry: Visual Narrative in Japanese Art, Dec. 22, 2012 - July 21, 2013. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Renegade Edo: Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec, July 21 - Dec. 3, 2023. Text by Xiaojin Wu. No cat. no., p. 100.
Credit LineGift of Mary and Allan Kollar, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
DimensionsSheet: 15 x 9 1/2 in. (38.1 x 24.1 cm)
MediumWoodblock print; ink and color on paper
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Kitagawa Utamaro
ca. 1795-96
Object number: 2017.23.8
Photo: Susan Cole
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Utagawa Hiroshige
1857
Object number: 2017.23.22
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Drum Bridge and Setting Sun Hill, Meguro (Meguro, Taikobashi, Yuhi ga oka), from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)
Utagawa Hiroshige
1857
Object number: 2017.23.25
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
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Utagawa Hiroshige
1858
Object number: 2017.23.3
Photo: Susan Cole
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Utagawa Hiroshige
1856
Object number: 2017.23.24
Image Not Available for Shizuka of the Tamaya House, from the series A Complete Set of the Great Beauties of the Present Day
Shizuka of the Tamaya House, from the series A Complete Set of the Great Beauties of the Present Day
Kitagawa Utamaro
1794
Object number: 2017.23.4
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
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Kitagawa Utamaro
1801-02
Object number: 2017.23.15
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Act Four (Yodanme), from the series Treasury of the Forty-Seven Loyal Retainers (Chushingura)
Kitagawa Utamaro
1801-02
Object number: 2017.23.14
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)
Kitagawa Utamaro
ca. 1795
Object number: 2017.23.5
Photo: Susan Cole
Evening Rain on the Nihon Embankment (Nihon zutsumi no yau), from the series Eight Fashionable Views of Edo (Furyu Edo hakkei)
Suzuki Harunobu
1766
Object number: 2013.31.2
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Lingering Snow on Mount Hira (Hira no bosetsu), from the series Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei no uchi)
Utagawa Hiroshige
ca. 1834-35
Object number: 2017.23.2
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Moon Cape, from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo
Utagawa Hiroshige
1857
Object number: 2017.23.23