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Celebrating the Boys' Festival


端午の節句
Katsukawa Shunchô (Japanese, active about 1780–1801)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39 x 25.9 cm (15 3/8 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14762
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Genshoku ukiyo-e dai hyakka jiten 5 (1980), #26 (two sheets); TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 2 (1962), #s 1715-6 (two sheets)
DescriptionRight sheet of incomplete diptych, or center sheet of incomplete triptych.
54.249 is left sheet.
Signed Shunchô ga
春潮画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
Artist's seal: Chûrin
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.