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Playing Hanetsuki at New Year


羽根突き
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Mikawaya Den'emon
Japanese
Edo period
about 1800s (early Bunka era)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.1 x 25.4 cm (15 x 10 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17810
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hiraki Ukiyo-e Foundation, The Ôjaku Collection (2022), #109 (complete triptych); not found in Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996)
DescriptionLeft sheet of an incomplete triptych.
Signed Kikukawa Eizan hitsu
菊川英山筆
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.