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Lantern (Tôrô): Hanaôgi of the Ôgiya in Edo-machi, kamuro Yoshino and Tatsuta, from the series Ten Kinds of Incense in the Pleasure Quarters (Seirô jisshu kô)


「青楼十種香 燈籠 江戸町一丁め あふぎや内 花あふぎ よしの たつた」
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon (Senkakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1793–94 (Kansei 5–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 26.2 x 19.4 cm (10 5/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19385
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #201-2 (no photo); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #255.2; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #944, pl. XLVI
Signed Kiyonaga ga
清長画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.