Iwafuji and Onoe, a Kagamiyama Story of a Long Stay in the Pleasure Quarters (Iwafuji Onoe, Itsuzuke kuruwa Kagamiyama), from the series Entertainments of the Niwaka Festival in the Yoshiwara in Full Swing (Seirô Niwaka zensei asobi) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Iwafuji and Onoe, a Kagamiyama Story of a Long Stay in the Pleasure Quarters (Iwafuji Onoe, Itsuzuke kuruwa Kagamiyama), from the series Entertainments of the Niwaka Festival in the Yoshiwara in Full Swing (Seirô Niwaka zensei asobi)

Iwafuji and Onoe, a Kagamiyama Story of a Long Stay in the Pleasure Quarters (Iwafuji Onoe, Itsuzuke kuruwa Kagamiyama), from the series Entertainments of the Niwaka Festival in the Yoshiwara in Full Swing (Seirô Niwaka zensei asobi)

「青楼俄全盛遊　岩藤　尾上　居続廓鏡山」

Katsukawa Shunzan (Japanese, active about 1781–1801)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1790s

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 32.3 x 22.5 cm (12 11/16 x 8 7/8 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.14885

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Description居続廓鏡山

Signed Katsukawa Shunzan ga
勝川春山画

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.