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Wakana of the Matsubaya, from the series Beauties of the Yoshiwara as Six Floral Immortals (Seirô bijin Rokkasen)


「青楼美人六花仙 松葉や若那」 (校合摺)
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1794–95 (Kansei 6–7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (key block); ink on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.7 x 27.1 cm (15 1/4 x 10 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14018
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Mus., Chôbunsai Eishi ten (2023), #29; Someya, Chôbunsai Eishi mokuroku (Chiba, 2023), #187; Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #13.5; Brandt, Hosoda Eishi (1977), list no. 191 (no photo)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.14018 (key block), 11.20203, 21.4918
Signed Eishi zu
栄之図
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.