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Jurôjin and Deer, with the Character "Kotobuki" in Various Forms


寿老人と鹿と寿字
Hanekawa Wagen (Japanese, active about 1716–1735)
Publisher: Nakajimaya Izaemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1720s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (urushi-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color and nikawa
Dimensions Hosoban; 31.6 x 15.8 cm (12 7/16 x 6 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13266
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 1 (1983), pl. 115
Signed Hanegawa Wagen zu
羽川和元図
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.