Utamaro

“The Poet Ariwara no Narihira (825–880) and Ono no Komachi,” from the series Five Colors of Love for the Six Poetic Immortals (Goshiki-zome rokkasen)

ca. 1798

Dating

Approximate date range

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions

H. 12 5/8 in. (32.1 cm); W. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm)

Collection no.

JP975

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Utamaro. “The Poet Ariwara no Narihira (825–880) and Ono no Komachi,” from the series Five Colors of Love for the Six Poetic Immortals (Goshiki-zome rokkasen). Utamaro; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.