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Ueno: Kashiku of the Tsuruya, kamuro Fudeji and Someji, from the series Ten Views of Edo: Contest of Beauties (Edo jikkei, bijin awase)


「江戸十景 上野」 「鶴屋内 かしく ふでし そめし」 「美人合」
Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige) (Japanese, about 1802–1835)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyūdō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.6 × 25.4 cm (14 13/16 × 10 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.15309
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画
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.