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Snow at Mimeguri (Mimeguri), from the series Snow, Moon and Flowers in the Fashionable Life of the East (Setsugekka Azuma fûryû)


「雪月花東風流 三囲」 雪
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1789 (Tenmei 9/Kansei 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25.8 x 19.5 cm (10 3/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19423
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #196-7 (no photo); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #250.7; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #897, pl. XLIII
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.