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お伽噺こま絵 右から 花咲じじい 桃太郎 かちかち山
Nine Illustrations from Three Fairy Tales: from right, The Old Man Who Made Trees Bloom (Hanasaka jijii), Momotarô (Peach Boy), Kachikachi Mountain (Kachikachi-yama)
お伽噺こま絵 右から 花咲じじい 桃太郎 かちかち山
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1776 (An'ei 5)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (benizuri-e); ink and limited color on paper
Dimensions
Hosoban; 30.7 x 13.4 cm (12 1/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19219
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #391 (no photo); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #367; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #66, pl. IX
Signed
Torii Kiyonaga ga
鳥居清長画
鳥居清長画
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.
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.