Utagawa Toyokuni I (初代歌川豊国) (artist 1769 – 02/24/1825)
Elegant women with attendants in a parody of a daimyō's procession - these are the center 3 of a 5 panel pentaptych
ca 1797
31 in x 15.25 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese color woodblock prints
Signed: Toyokuni ga (豊国画)
Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi
(Marks 573 - seal 07-008)
Censor's seal: kiwame
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - all 5 panels
Metropolitan Museum of Art - 3 panels including the one on the far left missing from the Lyon Collection
The National Museum of Asian Art - the full composition entitled 'Women Enacting a Daimyo Procession'
Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej Manggha, Krakow - all 5 panels
Yale University Art Gallery - center panel misidentified as being by Kunisada
Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire (via Ritsumeikan University) - the 4 left panels - black and white reproduction
Dayton Art Institute - 3 panels
The Pushkin State Museum - center panel only
Yale University Art Gallery - right-hand panel misidentified as being by Kunisada, late edition, lacking a Toyokuni signature
Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, Leiden) via Ritsumeikan University - center panel only
Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, Leiden) via Ritsumeikan University - left-hand panel only
Chazen Museum of Art - right-hand panel only
San Diego Museum of Art - the same three panels Two of the women in the far left panel are carrying keyari (毛槍) or feather-topped, ceremonial spears.
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There is another copy of the full pentaptych at the Worcester Art Museum. There is another copy of these three panels in the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden.
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Illustrated:
1) In color - all 5 panels - in the frontispiece spread over two pages in Masterpieces of Japanese Prints: The European Collections - Ukiyo-e from the Victoria and Albert Museum, Kodansha International, 1991.
2) In color over two pages in Japanese Prints by Catherine David, 2010, Éditions Place des Victoires, pp. 164-165.
3) All five prints in black and white across two pages in Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collection 4: Victoria and Albert Museum I, Kodansha, 1989, pp. 184-185, #86.
beautiful women (bijin-ga - 美人画) (genre)
mitate-e (見立て絵) (genre)
Wakasaya Yoichi (若狹屋与市) (publisher)
Mount Fuji (富士山) (genre)