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Courtesans of the Ôgiya: Hanaôgi, kamuro Yoshino and Tatsuta; Segawa, kamuro Onami and Menami; Miyahito, kamuro Tsubaki and Shirabe


「扇屋内  花扇 よしの たつた  瀬川 おなみ めなみ  蓬莢仙(みやひと) つばき しらべ」
Chôkôsai Eishô (Japanese, active 1780–1800)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Chûemon (Chûsuke) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1796–97 (Kansei 8–9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.3 x 26 cm (15 1/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14903
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Brandt, Hosoda Eishi (1977), fig. 441, list no. A71b; TNM, Ukiyo-e Prints 2 (1962), #2301
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.14903, 21.4942
Signed Eishô ga
栄昌画
Marks No censor's seal
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.