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「青楼万歳俄 八月ひくに たい かつ いね 子付 りん うた」
Nuns in the Eight Month (Hachigatsu bikuni), from the series The Manzai Dance at the Niwaka Festival in the Pleasure Quarters (Seirô Manzai Niwaka)
「青楼万歳俄 八月ひくに たい かつ いね 子付 りん うた」
Japanese
Edo period
about 1791 (Kansei 3)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical chûban; 26 x 19.3 cm (10 1/4 x 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19616
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Someya, Chôbunsai Eishi mokuroku (Chiba, 2023), chûban #92; Asano, "Yoshiwara Niwaka," in Ukiyo-e Art 158 (2009), fig. 12; Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #162.4; Brandt, Hosoda Eishi (1977), fig. 36, list no. 115; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #516
DescriptionThe performers: Tai, Katsu, Ine, and child attendants Rin and Uta
Signed
Eishi ga
栄之画
栄之画
Marks
Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極
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.
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.