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Zhong Kui (Shôki), the Demon Queller, in stone-rubbing style


石摺り風の鍾馗図 「鬼界無近終南山」
Nishimura Shigenaga (Japanese, 1697?–1756)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1740s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e, in style of ishizuri-e); ink on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 32.6 x 14.6 cm (12 13/16 x 5 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19052
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Nishimura Shigenaga hitsu
西村重長筆
Marks Artist's seal: Shige
Inscriptions鬼界無近終南山
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.