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Komachi, from the series New Six Poetic Immortals (Shin Rokkasen)


「新六歌仙 小町」
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about late 1790s (late Kansei era)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical aiban; 32.2 x 22.6 cm (12 11/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14026
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Someya, Chôbunsai Eishi mokuroku (Chiba, 2023), aiban #39; Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #8.4
Signed Eishi zu
栄之図
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
InscriptionsPoem: Iro miede...
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.