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Momiji no ga, from the series Eastern Figures Matched with the Tale of Genji (Azuma sugata Genji awase)


「東すかた源じ合 紅葉賀」
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Mikawaya Den'emon
Japanese
Edo period
about 1818–23 (Bunsei 1–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.3 x 25 cm (14 11/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17762
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), list #1.4 and cat. no. 346, and color plate
Signed Kikukawa Eizan hitsu
菊川英山筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
InscriptionsPoem: Mono omou ni/ tachimaubeku mo/ aranu ni mo/ sode uchifurushi/ kokoro shiriki ya
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.