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「柳番続 柳屋」
The Willow Shop (Yanagiya), from the series A Series of Willows (Yanagi ban tsuzuki)
「柳番続 柳屋」
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1828 (Bunsei 11)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Shikishiban; 20.7 x 18 cm (8 1/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19825
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
McKee, Colored in the Year's New Light (Becker coll. exh. ca., 2008), #81 (this design mentioned in note, but no photo); Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 185; other prints in the series: Carpenter et al, Reading Surimono (2008), #107-108
DescriptionPoems translated in Polster & Marks 1980, p. 181.
Signed
Go Hokkei
呉北渓
呉北渓
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.