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「子宝五節遊」 初春
The New Year Festival, from the series Precious Children's Games of the Five Festivals (Kodakara gosetsu asobi)
「子宝五節遊」 初春
Japanese
Edo period
about 1794–95 (Kansei 6–7)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 39.3 x 25.6 cm (15 1/2 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13936
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA, Golden Age (2010), #36; Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #11-1 (no photo); Kumon Kodomo Kenkyûjo, Ukiyo-e no kodomotachi/Children Depicted in Ukiyoe (1995), #22; Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list # 62.1; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #959, pl. LXI
Signed
Kiyonaga ga
清長画
清長画
Marks
Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極
改印：極
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.
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.