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Two Women with a Shamisen Case, from the series Comparison of Five People (Gonin awase)


「五人合」 三味線箱
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1809–13 (Bunka 6–10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.4 x 25.8 cm (15 1/8 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17707
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), list #25.2 and cat. no. 129 (Goshikizome version)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.17706 (Goshikizome), 11.17707 (Gonin awase)
Signed Eizan hitsu
英山筆
Marks No censor's seal
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.