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Wisteria Maiden (Fuji musume) and Demon Chanting the Name of the Buddha (Oni no nenbutsu), from the series Souvenir Paintings from Ôtsu, Stocked in Edo (Edo shiire Ôtsu miyage)


「江戸仕入大津土産」 藤娘 鬼念仏
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Ômiya Gonkurô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1802–03 (Kyôwa 2–3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39.3 x 26.4 cm (15 1/2 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14202
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Tokita, E de tanoshimu Edo no kotowaza (2005), p. 73; Rijksmuseum, The Ear Catches the Eye (2001), #84; Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #420 (this design not illustrated); Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #855.1; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #814
Signed Tosa Mitsunobu monjin Matabei hitsu; 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.