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Kobayashi Kiyochika
Beauties of the Three Capitals: Kayo of Kyoto, Ikkaku of Osaka, and Kokichi of Tokyocirca 1877

Not on view
Japanese woodblock print with hand-applied color, featuring a triple-faced portrait bust in a sepia oval, flanked by text cartouches with Japanese calligraphy
Artist or Maker
Kobayashi Kiyochika
Title
Beauties of the Three Capitals: Kayo of Kyoto, Ikkaku of Osaka, and Kokichi of Tokyo
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
circa 1877
Period
Meiji period (1868-1912)
Medium
Color woodblock print
Dimensions
Image: 13 3/4 × 9 7/16 in. (34.93 × 23.97 cm) Sheet: 14 1/4 × 9 15/16 in. (36.2 × 25.24 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Carl Holmes
Accession Number
M.71.100.47
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Burrell, Jane; Kuwayama, George; Lee, Junghee; Garaventa, Gloria and Henry Smith. Tuchman, Mitch, ed. Tradition In Transition: Print Masters of the Meiji and Taisho Periods. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1983.
  • Epprecht, Katharina. 2012. The Beauty of the Moment: Women in Japanese Woodblock Prints. Zurich: Scheidegger and Spiess.