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Women in a Boat, Imitating Three Lucky Gods (Sanpukujin)


三福神 (校合摺)
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (key block print, kôgôzuri); ink on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39 x 27 cm (15 3/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13541
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e taikei 9 (1976), #s 112-4 (complete triptych)
DescriptionRight sheet of incomplete triptych.
Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画
Marks Censor's seal: (blank circle where a kiwame seal will later be carved)
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.