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Kojima Bingo no Saburô Takanori


「児嶋備後三郎高徳」
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Publisher: Sakaiya Kurobei
Japanese
Edo period
about 1762–64 (Hôreki 12–Meiwa 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (benizuri-e); ink and limited color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39.3 x 27.6 cm (15 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19633
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #006; King and Iwakiri, Japanese Warrior Prints (2007), #28; Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #140; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #90, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 71
Signed Suzuki Harunobu hitsu
鈴木春信筆
Marks Artist's seal: Harunobu
InscriptionsLines of Chinese poem: Ten Kôsen wo munashû suru koto nakare/ toki ni Hanrei naki ni shi mo arazu
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.