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Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Beauty Dropping Bodhisattva Jizō Prayer Slips into the Sumida River to Calm the Spirits of the Drownedmid-1840s

Not on view
Japanese woodblock print in a rounded rectangular format, a woman in a patterned teal kimono leaning forward over a striped platform reaching toward scattered paper slips, with a navy parasol in the upper right
Artist or Maker
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Japan, 1797-1861
Title
Beauty Dropping Bodhisattva Jizō Prayer Slips into the Sumida River to Calm the Spirits of the Drowned
Date Made
mid-1840s
Period
Edo period (1603 - 1868)
Medium
Uchiwa-e (fan print); color woodblock print
Dimensions
Image: 8 3/4 × 11 9/16 in. (22.23 × 29.37 cm) Sheet: 8 15/16 × 11 9/16 in. (22.7 × 29.37 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Barbara S. Bowman
Accession Number
M.2015.298.82
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Goodall, Hollis. Living for the Moment: Japanese Prints from the Barbara S. Bowman Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2015.