Utamaro

Jihei of Kamiya Eloping with the Geisha Koharu of Kinokuniya, from the series “True Feelings Compared: The Founts of Love” (Jitsu kurabe iro no Minakami)

ca. 1798–99

Dating

Approximate date range

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions

15 1/8 x 9 5/8 in. (38.4 x 24.4 cm)

Collection no.

JP2738

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Utamaro. Jihei of Kamiya Eloping with the Geisha Koharu of Kinokuniya, from the series “True Feelings Compared: The Founts of Love” (Jitsu kurabe iro no Minakami). Utamaro; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.