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The Eleventh Month: The Akiba Festival (Jûichigatsu, Akiba matsuri), from the series Annual Events in the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara nenjû gyôji)


「吉原年中行事 十一月 秋葉祭」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1822 (Bunsei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38 x 25.3 cm (14 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.15431
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The series: Schaap, Kunisada (exh. cat., 2016), checklist 1-29
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.15431, 11.15652
Signed Gototei Kunisada ga
五渡亭国貞画
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.