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Hotei Holding a Bag with Chinese Children Inside


唐子の入っている袋を見せる布袋
Okumura Toshinobu (Japanese, active about 1717–1750)
Publisher: Emiya (Uemura) Kichiemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (urushi-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color and nikawa
Dimensions Hosoban; 31.6 x 15.6 cm (12 7/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13227
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Yamato gakô Okumura Toshinobu hitsu
大和画工 奥村利信筆
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.