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Takigawa, from the series Array of Supreme Beauties of the Present Day (Tôji zensei bijin-zoroe)


「当時全盛美人揃 滝川」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1794 (Kansei 6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.2 x 25.2 cm (15 1/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14256
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Golden Age (2010), #60; Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #149; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #229.10, pl. 46; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 145.3.2; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #88
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
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.