Advanced Search 
「久かた屋 仲の町の三 初空の 鶴屋内 ちとせ」
Chitose of the Tsuruya Enjoying the New Year's Sky (Hatsusora no Tsuruya uchi Chitose), No. 3 from the series Views of Naka-no-chô for the Hisakataya Club (Hisakataya Naka-no-chô no san)
「久かた屋 仲の町の三 初空の 鶴屋内 ちとせ」
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 3 of pentaptych; 21 x 18.8 cm (8 1/4 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19877
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
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(3); 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)
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.
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
岳亭定岡
InscriptionsPoem by Amanoya Wakashiba: Hatsusora ni/ ha o nosu hata no/ Tsuruya tote/ hari no tsuyoki wa/ kono sato no kaze
Poem by Hisakataya: Towazu to mo/ tsuruya to shiruki/ oiran no/ ôtori hata ni/ ayumu nenrei
Poem by Hisakataya: Towazu to mo/ tsuruya to shiruki/ oiran no/ ôtori hata ni/ ayumu nenrei
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.