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[Shinsen] Kyôka gojûnin isshu (A New Selection of Fifty Kyôka Poets)


[新撰] 狂歌五十人一首
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Author of preface: Ishikawa Masamochi (Rokujuen Meshimori) (Japanese)
Author of preface: Rokkyokuen Nanboku
Japanese
Edo period
1819 (Bunsei 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink on paper
Dimensions 27.8 x 18.9 cm (ôhon)
Credit Line Source unidentified
Accession Number1997.555
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 273
Signed Artist signature: Gako Kyosai Hokkei
ProvenanceProbably by 1903, part of the library of the department of the Art of Asia, Museum of Fine Arts [see note]; 1997, catalogued by the MFA; 1998, accessioned by the MFA. (Accession Date: July 31, 1998)

NOTE: This may have been deposited at the MFA by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston. Much of Bigelow’s collection of Asian art, books, and works on paper was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA between about 1890 and 1903.