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Two Women with a Shamisen Case, from the series Floating World Beauties in the Modern Style (Tôfû ukiyo bijin)


「当風浮世美人」 三味線箱
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Manki (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1809–13 (Bunka 6–10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.3 x 24.6 cm (15 1/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17773
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), list #119.1 (no photo)
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.