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Flowering Cherry Branch, with advertisement for Senjokô


桜、仙女香
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
1820s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hashira-e; 115.8 x 10.2 cm (45 9/16 x 4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20403
OUT ON LOAN
On display at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu
前北斎為一筆
InscriptionsPoem
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.