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「扇合三番内 左檜扇 右花扇」
Left Side: Cypress-wood Fan, Right Side: the Courtesan Hanaôgi, from the series Comparisons of Fans, a Triptych (Ôgi awase sanban no uchi)
「扇合三番内 左檜扇 右花扇」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Japanese
Edo period
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Shikishiban; 20.7 x 18.7 cm (8 1/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20654
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA, Kuniyoshi & Kunisada (2016), #160; McKee, Colored in the Year's New Light (Becker coll. exh. ca., 2008), #28; Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 303
DescriptionFirst poem translated, and second poem discussed, in McKee 2008, p. 69.
Signed
Ôju Kunisada ga
応需国貞画
応需国貞画
InscriptionsPoem by Shôsuiko: Yoigokoro/ hodo yoku kayou/ yozakura no/ hana no ôgi no/ kaze wa itowashi
Poem by Shakuyakutei: Mikawa mizu/ nagare no mi to wa/ hana momiji/ iro ka kotonaru/ haru no miyabime
「松翠子蔭広 酔こゝろほとよくかよふ夜桜の花に扇の風はいとはし」「芍薬亭 みかは水流れの身とは花もみちいろ香ことなる春のみや姫」
Poem by Shakuyakutei: Mikawa mizu/ nagare no mi to wa/ hana momiji/ iro ka kotonaru/ haru no miyabime
「松翠子蔭広 酔こゝろほとよくかよふ夜桜の花に扇の風はいとはし」「芍薬亭 みかは水流れの身とは花もみちいろ香ことなる春のみや姫」
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.