Wood of the Tree Fern (Sotetsu no ki): Ôta Harunaga, from the series Selections for the Ten Stems (Mitate jikkan no uchi) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Wood of the Tree Fern (Sotetsu no ki): Ôta Harunaga, from the series Selections for the Ten Stems (Mitate jikkan no uchi)

Wood of the Tree Fern (Sotetsu no ki): Ôta Harunaga, from the series Selections for the Ten Stems (Mitate jikkan no uchi)

「見立十千之図　蘇鉄の木　太田春長」

Utagawa Yoshifusa (Japanese, active about 1837–1860)
Publisher: Hirookaya Kôsuke (Kikujudô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1860 (Ansei 7/Man'en 1), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.5 x 25.5 cm (14 3/8 x 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession Number00.1404

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionMFA impressions: 00.1404, 11.37362

Signed Ippôsai Yoshifusa ga
一宝斎芳房画

Marks Censor's seal: Monkey 5 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印：申五改
彫師：なし

ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 05, 1900)