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Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Young Man, Young Woman, and a Boy Pass in Front of Santo Kyoden's Smoking Shop
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn

Young Man, Young Woman, and a Boy Pass in Front of Santo Kyoden's Smoking Shop

Dateca. 1800
Maker Kitagawa Utamaro Japanese, 1754 - 1806
Label TextSanto Kyoden (1761-1816), a famous writer, artist, and arbiter of popular taste, operated a tobacco shop to finance his enormous expenses in the entertainment district. Smoking played an important role in floating world culture. Many prints depict courtesans or their clients leaning desultorily on an elbow and leisurely inhaling a long, thin pipe.
Object number2017.23.1
Provenance[Sebastian Izzard, New York]; purchased from gallery by Allan Kollar, Seattle, Washington, 2009; 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. Cat. no. 28, reproduced p. 51.
Credit LineGift of Mary and Allan Kollar
Dimensions15 1/4 x 10 in. (38.7 x 25.4 cm)
MediumWoodblock print; ink and color on paper
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
Beauty Reading a Letter under a Mosquito Net
Kitagawa Utamaro
1795-98
Object number: 2017.23.9
Image Not Available for Teahouse Waitress behind a Bamboo Blind, from the series Eight Views of Tea Stalls in Celebrated Places
Teahouse Waitress behind a Bamboo Blind, from the series Eight Views of Tea Stalls in Celebrated Places
Kitagawa Utamaro
ca. 1795-96
Object number: 2017.23.8
Photo: Susan Cole
A High-Ranking Yūjo with a Client
Kitagawa Utamaro
1799
Object number: 2017.23.12
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Hands inside the Sleeves (Futokorode), from the series Eight Views of Tea Stalls in Celebrated Places (Meisho koshikake hakkei)
Kitagawa Utamaro
ca. 1795-96
Object number: 2017.23.6
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Tagasode of the Tamaya House
Kitagawa Utamaro
1800-02
Object number: 2017.23.13
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
Image Not Available for Okita of the Naniwaya Studying Her Face in a Hand Mirror
Okita of the Naniwaya Studying Her Face in a Hand Mirror
Kitagawa Utamaro
1795-96
Object number: 2017.23.7
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Act Six (Rokudanme), from the series Treasury of the Forty-Seven Loyal Retainers (Chushingura)
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
The Courtesans Shizuka and Akashi of the Tamaya House (Tamaya uchi Shizuka, Akashi)
Kitagawa Utamaro
ca. 1799
Object number: 2017.23.10
The Eloping Lovers Keisei Umegawa and Hikyakuya Chubei (Keisei Umegawa, Hikyakuya Chubei)
Kitagawa Utamaro
ca.1799
Object number: 2017.23.11