
Drawing Lots for Prizes (Ho biki)
Clarence Buckingham Collection
Catalogue
- Year
- 1793
- Dimensions
- Right sheet: 37.8 × 24.5 cm (14 15/16 × 9 11/16 in.); Center sheet: 37.8 × 25 cm (14 15/16 × 9 7/8 in.); Left sheet: 37.8 × 26.2 cm (14 15/16 × 10 3/8 in.); Mat: 57.2 × 95.3 cm (22 1/2 × 37 1/2 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Kitagawa Utamaro
Artist

Kitagawa Utamaro was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects.
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More by Kitagawa Utamaro
Wisteria Maiden with an Ōtsu Demon Dressed as an Itinerant Monk, from the series Souvenir Paintings from Ōtsu, Stocked in Edo (Edo Shi-ire Ōtsu Miyage)
1802 · Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Act VII from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers
1801 · Color woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Ehon enbusugata
1798 · color woodcut on paper
Ehon enbusugata - ge
1798 · color woodcut on paper
Ehon enbusugata - chu
1798 · color woodcut on paper
“Preparing Food for the Warbler,” from the album Men’s Stamping Dance (Otoko dōka, uguisu no esa suri)
1798 · Page from a woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Record
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- Kitagawa Utamaro
- Year
- 1793
- Dimensions
- Right sheet: 37.8 × 24.5 cm (14 15/16 × 9 11/16 in.); Center sheet: 37.8 × 25 cm (14 15/16 × 9 7/8 in.); Left sheet: 37.8 × 26.2 cm (14 15/16 × 10 3/8 in.); Mat: 57.2 × 95.3 cm (22 1/2 × 37 1/2 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1793-526629
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified




