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Ômi Province, from the series Fashionable Six Jewel Rivers (Fûryû Mu Tamagawa)


「風流六玉川 近江」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1804 (Kyôwa 4/Bunka 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.8 x 24.6 cm (14 7/8 x 9 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14468
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #266.2
DescriptionSheet 2 (from right) of hexaptych.

MFA impressions:
Sheet 1 (Yamashiro): 11.2256, 11.14465
Sheet 2 (Ômi): 11.14468, 11.14469, 11.24904
Sheet 3 (Settsu): 11.1969, 11.14449, 11.24902
Sheet 4 (Musashi): 11.2033, 11.14472, 11.24913, 21.6508
Sheet 5 (Mutsu): 11.2273, 11.14473, 11.24966
Sheet 6 (Kii): 11.1993, 11.24903
Virtual records: 11.14465VR (11.14465, 11.14469, 11.14449, 11.14472, 11.14473; lacks left sheet), 11.24902VR (11.24902, 11.24903, 11.24904, 11.24913, 11.24966; lacks right sheet)
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.