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Poem by Fujiwara no Mototoshi: Umegawa, from the series Ogura Imitations of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Ogura nazorae hyakunin isshu)


「小倉擬百人一首 藤原基俊 梅川」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Ibaya Senzaburō (Dansendō) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Matsushima Fusajirô (Horikô Fusajirô, Hori Fusa) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1845–48 (Kôka 2–Kaei 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.6 x 25 cm (14 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17204
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Herwig and Mostow, The Hundred Poets Compared (2007), #75; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S46.75
DescriptionNo. 75 from a series jointly designed by Hiroshige, Kunisada, and Kuniyoshi.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: Fu
Blockcutter's mark: Horikô Fusajirô
改印:普
彫師:彫工房次郎
InscriptionsPoem: Chigiri okishi/ sasemo ga tsuyu o/ inochi nite/ aware kotoshi no/ aki mo inumeri
契りおきし させもが露を いのちにて あはれことしの 秋もいぬめり

きのふハ廓のきぬぎぬを けふハ冥途の迎ひ駕籠 命短き冬の日や 冨田林の霜解て しめりかちなる四ツの袖 泪の雨の古郷の 二口村へや急ぎゆくらん
 柳下亭種員筆記
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.