Artist
Utagawa Kunimasa V
(歌川国政 V; fl. late 19th–early 20th century)
Catalogue information
Meiji era, 1879
Book; illustrations in ink and color on paper
20.8 x 14.1 cm (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
Postscripts: “Translation into Japanese by Kanagaki Robun [假名垣魯文; 1829 –1894]”; “Published by Tsujiokaya Bunsuke [辻岡屋文助]”
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Meech-Pekarik 1986, pl. 19
; 1986
The World of the Meiji Print: Impressions of a New Civilization. New York: Weatherhill.
Guth 2004, p. 27, no. 1.14.
2004
Longfellow’s Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 499 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.