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「青楼仁和嘉女芸者 茶せん売 黒木売 さいもん」
Tea-Whisk Seller, Fire Wood Seller, Shrine Festival Performer (Chasen uri, kuroki uri, saimon), from the series Female Geisha Section of the Niwaka Festival in the Yoshiwara (Seirô niwaka onna geisha)
「青楼仁和嘉女芸者 茶せん売 黒木売 さいもん」
Japanese
Edo period
1793 (Kansei 5)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 39.1 x 26.8 cm (15 3/8 x 10 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14358
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA, Golden Age (2010), #50; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #80.4, pl. 31; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 85.1.4; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #95
Signed
Utamaro ga
歌麿画
歌麿画
Marks
Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極
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.
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.