Kitagawa Utamaro, Moonlight Revelry at Dozo Sagami
Gift of Charles Lang Freer · National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Open Access (CC0)View original →
Kitagawa Utamaro

Moonlight Revelry at Dozo Sagami

late 18th- early 19th century

Current Collection

National Museum of Asian Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Medium
Ink and color on paper
Dimensions
147.4 × 321 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-127307

Utamaro is known mainly for his sumptuous woodblock prints portraying women. Moonlight Revelry, a masterpiece among his few paintings, once formed a set of three on the themes of "Snow," "Moon," and "Flower." This painting shows the spacious salon of an elite pleasure house located in Shinagawa, once a suburb of Edo (now Tokyo), the center of the shogun's government. Here Utamaro used principles …

Provenance

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Registry history

  • late 18th- early 19th century — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art

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