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Hatsuhana-dayû of the Naka-Ôgiya in Genjôraku, from the series Costume Parade of the Shinmachi Quarter in Osaka (Ôsaka Shinmachi nerimono)


「大阪新町ねりもの 還城楽 中扇屋初花太夫」
Yanagawa Shigenobu I (Japanese, 1787–1832)
Japanese
Edo period
1822 (Bunsei 5), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.8 x 26.4 cm (15 1/4 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18087
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 124; Tsubouchi Museum, Zenki Kamigata-e (1995), #4-661; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan 5, Victoria and Albert Museum II (1987), pl. 173; Keyes 1973, #341 (no photo)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.18087, 11.25827
Signed Tôto Yanagawa Shigenobu
東都柳川重信
Marks Artist's seal: Yanagawa
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.