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DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012

Flowers (Hana), from the series Snow, Moon, and Flowers (Setsugekka no uchi)


雪月花之内 はな
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Hayashiya Shôgorô (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Matsushima Fusajirô (Horikô Fusajirô, Hori Fusa) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.1 x 25.8 cm (14 5/8 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.15187
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks et al, Genji's World (2012), list #G318-03 (no photo)
DescriptionCenter sheet of incomplete triptych; title on right sheet.

MFA impressions: *11.15187 (center sheet only, deaccessioned in 2012), 11.43518a-c, *11.45184a-c (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.45185a-c, 11.45186a-c
Signed Kôchôrô Toyokuni ga
香蝶楼豊国画
Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Watanabe
Blockcutter's mark: Horikô Fusajirô
改印:衣笠、渡辺
彫師:彫工房次郎
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.