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The Fifth Month, the Tango Festival, Sweetflag in the Eaves (Gogatsu, Tango, noki no ayame): Hanagoromo of the Wakanaya, from the series Annual Events in the New Yoshiwara (Shin Yoshiwara nenjû gyôji)


「新吉原年中行事」 「五月 端午 軒の菖蒲」 「若那屋内 花衣」
Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Publisher: Daikokuya (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
late 1820s–early 1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 26.1 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17949
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), #68
Signed Keisai Eisen ga
渓斎英泉画
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.