First Month (Mutsuki): Sugatami of the Tsuruya, kamuro Miyano and Tamiji, from the series Floral Papers with Poems for the Five Festivals (Hana shikishi Gosetsu eika) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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First Month (Mutsuki): Sugatami of the Tsuruya, kamuro Miyano and Tamiji, from the series Floral Papers with Poems for the Five Festivals (Hana shikishi Gosetsu eika)

First Month (Mutsuki): Sugatami of the Tsuruya, kamuro Miyano and Tamiji, from the series Floral Papers with Poems for the Five Festivals (Hana shikishi Gosetsu eika)

「花色紙五節詠歌　睦月　鶴屋内　姿見　みやの　たみし」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Moriya Jihei (Kinshindô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.2 x 25.7 cm (15 1/16 x 10 1/8 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.14291

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
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.