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Courtesan and Attendants with Dolls, from an untitled series of Yoshiwara scenes


吉原の風俗 遊女と禿と人形
Artist unknown, Japanese
Attributed to: Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764)
Japanese
Edo period
1700s-1710s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.7 x 37.3 cm (10 1/8 x 14 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13386
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed (this sheet unsigned)
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.