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Women Gathering Seaweed


若布を刈る海女
Katsukawa Shunkô II (Shunsen) (Japanese, 1762–about 1830)
Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1800s–1810s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.3 x 25.5 cm (15 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17980
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto (complete triptych): http://db.nichibun.ac.jp/ja/d/GAI/info/GP040/item/011/
DescriptionLeft sheet of an incomplete triptych.
Signed Shunsen ga
春扇画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame (pus an uncarved rectangle perhaps intended for a date seal)
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.