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「げんじ五十四まいのうち 第十八番 げんじ松風」
The Tale of Genji: The Wind in the Pines (Genji Matsukaze), no. 18 from the series Genji in Fifty-Four Sheets (Genji gojûyonmai no uchi)
「げんじ五十四まいのうち 第十八番 げんじ松風」
Japanese
Edo period
about 1735 (Kyôhô 20)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (beni-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied and stenciled color and metallic powder
Dimensions
Horizontal hosoban; 16.2 x 33.8cm (6 3/8 x 13 5/16in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19132
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA, Printed Treasures (2008), #15; Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), fig. 105, color pl. 5; Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #102; Waterhouse, Images of Eighteenth-C. Japan (1975), #40 (described but not ill.)
Signed
Yamato gakô Nishimura Shigenaga
大和画工 西村重長
大和画工 西村重長
Marks
Artist's seal: Shigenaga
InscriptionsPoem: Mi o kaete/ hitori kaereru/ yamazato ni/ kikishi ni nitaru/ matsukaze zo fuku
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.