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Fashionable Likings of Present-day Beauties (Tôsei bijin ryûkô konomi) / An Assortment of Famous Restaurants of the Present Day (Tôji kômei kaiseki zukushi)


「当時高名会席つくし」「当世美人流行好」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1818–24 (early Bunsei era)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38 x 27.4 cm (14 15/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.15686
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Other prints in the series: Seikado, Kunisada (exh. cat., 1996), #s 50-51; Yoshida, Ukiyo-e jiten, vol. 2 (1965), p. 242
DescriptionAccording to Yoshida, this is the second edition of the Restaurant series, with the inset pictures of restaurants replaced by a second series title.
「当時高名会席尽」(G№11.15676)のコマ絵部分に、「当世美人流行好」を入れた後摺。版元印も異なる。(『歌川国貞』解説参照)
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.