Color woodblock print for a rigid fan (uchiwa-e), 210 × 284 mm.
Woman shown in three-quarter view, head bowed and turned left, with downward gaze. Hair dressed in shimada-mage (島田髷), of the refined bushi-fujin type (粋な武家婦人の島田), with smooth sides and ears exposed, bound with red cloth at the back; lacquer comb (kushi, 櫛) at the front decorated with a design of heron and crescent moon. Silver kanzashi (簪) with gilt morning glory butterfly finial, another hairpin in gold with a trifoil decoration. She holds a single morning glory — asagao (朝顔; Ipomoea nil) — leaf in her left hand. Dressed in a dark blue kimono patterned overall with a fine pale dot design and roundels; inner collar of red ground with small white dots. Black obi.
Background of three stylized fish (in dark blue, teal, and dark brown) on a salmon-pink ground patterned with irregular tie-dye-style dotted lines.
Inscriptions: artist's signature Kōchōrō Kunisada ga (香朝樓國貞画) in a red gourd-shaped cartouche, lower right; publisher's mark 十 (jū) for Kojimaya Jūbei (小島屋重兵衛) and censor seal kiwame (極), lower right, beside the signature. No series-title cartouche visible. No date seal.
Note: the figure is identical to that used in SVJP-0567.2026 — Untitled (2), from the Series "Morning Glory and Wonderful Women" — except for the background.
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SVJP-0568.2026 |
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Additional Information
| Collection | Fan print (Uchiwa-e) [団扇絵] , Japanese prints and drawings |
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| Type / Purpose | Fan , Woodblock print |
| Period | 19 AD , Edo period [江戸時代] (1603–1868) , Mid-19th century , Tenpō era [天保] (1830–1844) |
| Country | Japan |
| Material | Washi |
| Media/Technique | Woodblock print (nishiki-e) |
| Size | Fan print. Uchiwa-e |
| Genre | Beauty Prints (Bijin-ga, 美人画) |
| Subject | Actor print , Beautiful woman (bijin-ga) , Edo period (江戸時代, 1603–1868) , Fan print , Fish , Japan , Japanese woodblock prints , Kanzashi (簪, hairpin) , Morning glory — asagao (朝顔; Ipomoea nil) , Uchiwa-e , Ukiyo-e , Women , Women in art , Young woman |
| School | Utagawa (歌川) |
| Signature | Kōchōrō Kunisada ga (香朝樓國貞画) |
| Creation / Publishing year | 1840 , Tenpō 11 (天保11年) |
| Acquisition year | 2026 |
