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Maker(s):Utagawa Toyohiro
Culture:Japanese (1773 - 1828)
Title:The Persimmon Gatherers
Date Made:1805 (12th month)
Type:Print
Materials:woodcut printed in color on paper
Place Made:Japan
Measurements:sheet: 15 1/4 x 10 3/16 in.; 38.735 x 25.8763 cm
Narrative Inscription:  stamped with publisher's seal at lower left: Eijudo (Mishimuraya Yohachi) 1738 - 1848, censor's seal at lower left: Kiwame seal with month seal for the year 1805 - 6, twelfth month
Accession Number:  SC 1959.255
Credit Line:Gift of Arthur B. Schaffner
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
One woman is picking persimmons from a large tree and a second woman gathers the picked persimmons in her kimono, two children grab for the few that have fallen from her kimono onto the ground.

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