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Summer (Mosquito Net): Inaoka of the Okamotoya, from the series Songs of the Four Seasons in the Pleasure Quarters (Seirô shiki no uta)


「青楼四季之詠」 夏 「岡本屋内 稲岡」
Torii Kiyomitsu II (Kiyomine) (Japanese, 1787–1868)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1810s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 17.9 x 25.4 cm (7 1/16 x 10 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18056
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 12, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin (1988), pl. 123; TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 2 (1962), #1609
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1195 (no censor's seal), 11.18056 (with censor's seal), 11.41804 (no censor's seal)
Signed Kiyomine ga
清峰画
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.