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Yoshiwara, from the series Ten Summer Scenes in Edo (Edo natsu jikkei)


「江都夏十景 吉原」
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Publisher: Kôzuya Isuke (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1788 (Tenmei 8)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 26.1 x 19.2 cm (10 1/4 x 7 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19381
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #194-5 (no photo); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #245.5; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #832, pl. XLII
Signed Kiyonaga ga
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.