Korean Musicians, Left Sheet of a Triptych (Karabito hayashi, sanmai tsuzuki hidari), from the series Entertainments of the Niwaka Festival in the Yoshiwara in Full Swing, Part 2 (Seirô Niwaka zensei asobi, ni no kawari) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Korean Musicians, Left Sheet of a Triptych (Karabito hayashi, sanmai tsuzuki hidari), from the series Entertainments of the Niwaka Festival in the Yoshiwara in Full Swing, Part 2 (Seirô Niwaka zensei asobi, ni no kawari)

Korean Musicians, Left Sheet of a Triptych (Karabito hayashi, sanmai tsuzuki hidari), from the series Entertainments of the Niwaka Festival in the Yoshiwara in Full Swing, Part 2 (Seirô Niwaka zensei asobi, ni no kawari)

「青楼俄全盛遊　二ノカワリ　唐人はやし　三枚続左」　（校合摺）

Katsukawa Shunzan (Japanese, active about 1781–1801)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (key block); ink on paper

Dimensions Vertical chûban; 26.4 x 19.8 cm (10 3/8 x 7 13/16 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.19597

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionTwo sheets of the triptych: 11.19597 (left), 11.24868 (center)

Signed Shunzan ga
春山画

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.