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The Twelfth Month (Gokugetsu), from the series Fashionable Twelve Months of Precious Children (Fûryû kodakara jûni tsuki)


「風流子宝十二月 極月」
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Maruya Jinpachi (Marujin, Enjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1806–08 (Bunka 3–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.4 x 26.5 cm (15 1/8 x 10 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17770
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 11, Museo d'Arte Orientale, Genoa, II (1989), fig. 32; the series: Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), #169 (this design not listed)
DescriptionMFA prints in the series: 11.14336, 11.17768, 11.17769, 11.17770, 11.17775
Signed Kikukawa Eizan hitsu
菊川英山筆
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.