Hour of the Hare [6am] (U no koku), from the series “The Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara” ("Seiro juni toki tsuzuki")

Provenance

Baron Sumitomo Tomoito (1865–1926). With Yamanaka & Company; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, June 1913; by descent to his sister, Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, 1913; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.

Hour of the Hare [6am] (U no koku), from the series “The Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara” ("Seiro juni toki tsuzuki")

Kitagawa Utamaro

c. 1794

Accession Number

23953

Medium

Color woodblock print; oban

Dimensions

37.5 × 24.4 cm (14 13/16 × 9 5/8 in.)

Classification

woodblock print

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection