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Courtesan with a Cloth Wrapper


袱紗をたたむ遊女
Kaigetsudô Anchi (Japanese, active about 1700–1716)
Publisher: Maruya Jinpachi (Marujin, Enjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
early to mid–1710s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
Dimensions Vertical ô-ôban; 62.4 x 30.6 cm (24 9/16 x 12 1/16 in. )
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13158
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #84; Ukiyo-e shûka 1 (1983), pl. 163; Ukiyo-e taisei 2 (1931), #40
DescriptionAnother impression in the Allen Memorial Museum at Oberlin College.
Signed Nihon giga Kaigetsu Matsuyô Anchi zu
日本戯画 懐月末葉安知図
Marks Artist's seal: Anchi
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art 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 in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.