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Suehiro of the Ôgiya with New Year's Gifts (Toshidama no Ôgiya uchi Suehiro), No. 1 from the series Views of Naka-no-chô for the Hisakataya Club (Hisakataya Naka-no-chô no ichi)


「久かた屋 仲の町の一 年玉の 扇や内 末広」
Yashima Gakutei (Japanese, 1786?–1868)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1825 (Bunsei 8)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban, sheet 1 of pentaptych; 21 x 18.8 cm (8 1/4 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19874
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné McKee, Colored in the Year's New Light (Becker coll. exh. ca., 2008), #89; Mirviss, The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Surimono (1995), cat. no. 7.(1); Rijksmuseum cat. III, Hokusai and His School (1982), #242a-e
DescriptionPentaptych: 11.19874 (R), 11.19876 (L), 11.19877 (C), 11.19878 (CL), 11.19879 (CR); virtual record: 11.19874, 11.19876-9

One poem from each sheet is translated in Rijksmuseum, Surimono: Poetry and Image (2000), pp. 116-7.
The poems for sheets no. 4 (11.19878) and 5 (11.19876) are translated in full in Goodall, Living for the Moment (Bowman Coll. exh. cat., 2015), pp. 129-32.
Signed Gakutei Sadaoka
岳亭定岡
InscriptionsPoem by Seikaitei Kamehito: Shimari yoki/ ômon-guchi o/ kaname nite/ Ôgiya chô mo/ hiraku hatsumise
Poem by Sawanoya ...
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.