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The Main Shrine (Hongû), from the series Souvenirs of Enoshima (Enoshima kikô)


「江島記行 本宮」
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Japanese
Edo period
1833 (Tenpô 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, gold, silver, and mica on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 21.3 x 18.1 cm (8 3/8 x 7 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19822
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Edo no surimono (1997), #60; Keyes, Art of Surimono (Chester Beatty cat., 1985), vol. 1, #150
DescriptionSpring kyôka surimono for the Manji poetry club.
Poems translated in Keyes 1985, vol. 1, p. 181.
Signed Hokkei
北渓
InscriptionsPoem by Shinshûtei Shigekado of Morioka: Hamaguri o/ tsukeishi byôbu ni/ hariokeru/ uta no suzume mo/ kasumu asanagi
蛤を つけし屏風に はりおける うたの雀も 霞む朝凪 森岡 森泉亭繁門

Poem by Shinshôtei Sanenori of Morioka, presently in Edo: Haruwakami/ kasumu byôbu no/ enoshimaya/ toiro mada usuki/ ume sakuragai
春わかみ 霞む屏風の 江のしまや 色また 薄き 梅桜貝 今出府 森昌亭実乗
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.