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The Third Month: Contest of Floral Beauty (Sangatsu, Hana-zumô utsukushiki shukô), from an untitled series of Niwaka festival dances representing the Twelve Months


仁和嘉狂言 「三月 花すもふ うつくしきしゆこう」
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1793 (Kansei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 22.1 x 15.5 cm (8 11/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20049
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hokusai Updated (2019), #47; Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 227, vertical chûban #11.04; the series: Lane, Hokusai Life and Work (1989), Appendix II, list #28
Signed Shunrô ga
春朗画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.