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A Party on the Pleasure Boat Yoshinomaru


吉野丸船遊び
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1790 (Kansei 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.6 x 26 cm (15 3/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14022
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Mus., Chôbunsai Eishi ten (2023), #19; Someya, Chôbunsai Eishi mokuroku (Chiba, 2023), #18; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan 2, British Museum II (1988), pl. 184; Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #98; Brandt, Hosoda Eishi (1977), fig. 218, list no. 88
DescriptionRight center sheet of incomplete pentaptych.

MFA impressions: *06.689 (left sheet only, deaccessioned in 2019), *06.690 (left center sheet only, deaccessioned in 2019), 11.14022 (right center sheet only), 11.14164-8 (complete pentaptych), 21.7447-50 (four sheets only, right sheet missing), 21.7586-90 (complete pentaptych)
Signed Eishi ga
栄之画
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.