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Hanaôgi of the Ôgiya, kamuro Yoshino and Tatsuta, from the series Comparison of Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Seirô bijin awase)


「青楼美人合 扇屋内 花扇 よしの たつの」
Chôkôsai Eishô (Japanese, active 1780–1800)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Chûemon (Chûsuke) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1795–97 (Kansei 7–9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.2 x 25.8 cm (15 1/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14907
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishô list, #13.3; Brandt, Hosoda Eishi (1977), list no. A39 (no photo)
Signed Eishô ga
栄昌画
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.