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The Twelfth Month (Jûnigatsu no tei), from an untitled series of Customs of the Pleasure Quarters in the Twelve Months


遊里風俗十二ヶ月 「十二月のてい」
Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764)
Publisher: Kurihara Chôemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1706 (Hôei 3), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.8 x 36 cm (10 3/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13377
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The series: Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #42 (this design not illustrated)
Signed 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.