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Dyed Black (Kuroku somaru), from the series Five Colors of Dye in the Modern World (Tôsei goshiki-zome)


「当世五色染 くろくそまる」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Izumoji Manjirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1805 (Bunka 2), 12th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.3 x 24.2 cm (14 5/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14345
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #542.2; another print in the series: Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 182.1.1
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks Censor's seals: kiwame, 12
改印:極、十弐
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.