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Courtesan in Kimono Decorated with Poetry Cards


カルタ模様着物姿の遊女
Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1708–10

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
Dimensions Vertical ô-ôban; 56.1 × 29.2 cm (22 1/16 × 11 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13342
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #62; Ukiyo-e taisei 2 (1931), #50
Signed Tôbu Yamato eshi Okumura Masanobu zu
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.