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「婦（女＋慈）比多意」 暖簾
Woman Standing by a Door-curtain (Noren) with a Tattooed Chinese Hero, from the series Brow Shaped Like Mount Fuji (Fujibitai)
「婦（女＋慈）比多意」 暖簾
Japanese
Edo period
late 1820s–early 1830s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 37.6 x 26.4 cm (14 13/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17925
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Other prints in the series: POLA Research Inst., Edo bijin no yosooi (2018), pp. 34-5; tChiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), #165
DescriptionThe figure painted on the curtain may be one of the 108 heroes of the famous Chinese martial-arts novel Shuihuzhuan (Suikoden).
Signed
Keisai Eisen ga
渓斎英泉画
渓斎英泉画
Marks
Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極
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.
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.