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「児女宝訓女今川 常の心さしかたましく女のみち明かならさる事」
The First Precept: A Woman Who Has a Wrong Conception of Life Goes Astray from the Path of Feminine Virtue (Tsune no kokorozashi katamashiku onna no michi ni akiraka narazaru koto), from the series A Treasury of Admonitions to Young Ladies (Jijo hôkun onna Imagawa)
「児女宝訓女今川 常の心さしかたましく女のみち明かならさる事」
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1784 (Tenmei 4)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical chûban; 25.6 x 19 cm (10 1/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19415
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #184-1 (no photo); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #233.1; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #657, pl. XXXV
Signed
Kiyonaga ga
清長画
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.