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Month of Letters [The Seventh Month]

The Twelve Months

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Title Month of Letters [The Seventh Month] Fumizuki 文月
Series title The Twelve Months 十二月の内
Artist Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) 歌川国貞 (三代目豊国) (1786–1865)
Date 6/1852
Publisher Yamadaya Shōjirō (Kinkyodō) 山田屋庄次郎 (錦橋堂)
City Edo
Signature Toyokuni ga 豊国画
Censorship seal(s) Kinugasa, Murata, Rat 6 衣笠 村田 子六
Publisher’s seal(s) Shō, Nakabashi, Yamadaya 庄中橋 山田屋
Technique & material Woodblock print; full colour print; pigment on paper
Format ōban
Object number SH2018-DM-006
Credit Line Gift of Muck and Mieke Douma
Provenance Gifted to the Japan Museum SieboldHuis in April 2018 by Muck and Mieke Douma
Exhibited in Verborgen Betekenissen: Vrouwen en mannen in de Japanse prentkunst (2023)

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