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Bun'ya no Yasuhide, from the series The Six Poetic Immortals in Fashionable Guise, No. 2 (Fûryû yatsushi Rokkasen, sono ni)


「風流略六哥仙 其二 文屋康秀」
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1793 (Kansei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.1 x 25.6 cm (15 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14087
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Someya, Chôbunsai Eishi mokuroku (Chiba, 2023), #197; Ukiyo-e shûka 9 (1981), pl. 6; Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #32.3; Brandt, Hosoda Eishi (1977), fig. 42, list no. 156; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #505
Signed Eishi zu
栄之図
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
InscriptionsPoem (Kokinshû 249, Hyakunin isshu 22): Fuku kara ni/ aki no kusaki no/ shioureba/ mube yamakaze o/ arashi to iuran
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.