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Chôryô, from the series Program of Nô Plays (Utai bangumi)


「謡番組 張良」
Kôsetsu (Japanese, active 1820s)
Japanese
Edo period
1823 (Bunsei 6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 21.7 x 18.8 cm (8 9/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20096
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Keyes, Art of Surimono (Chester Beatty cat., 1985), vol. 1, #230; another print in the series: Carpenter et al, Reading Surimono (2008), #178
DescriptionPoems translated in Keyes 1985, vol. 1, p. 262.
Signed Kôsetsu
香雪
InscriptionsPoem by Shunjûan Nagame: Uguisu no/ kamuri kotoba ya/ aratama no/ haru o fumaeshi/ ike no kutsu kamo

Poem by Kotobuki Nagaki: Chôryô ga/ kutsu ni narôte/ kamidana e/ funde sasagen/ haru no kakizome

Poem by Kome no Masunari from Sendai: Kôchô no/ kôsekikô e/ chôryô ga/ kutsu katakata/ to kaeru nakuran

Poem by Kinpôdô Nagao: Kin'i chô/ ume ga ka o baya/ tomenikeri/ eda ni medetô/ kizohajime shite

Poem by Shûchôdô Monoyana: Uta no seki/ kôshaburi naru/ uguisu no/ saezuru kuchô/ ryôshi bundai
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.