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「浪花風俗浮礼歌美人合の内 高らいばし屋ぐらやしき」
Towers and Mansions at Kôrai Bridge (Kôraibashi yagura yashiki), from the series Customs of Osaka: Frivolous Songs Matched with Beauties (Naniwa fûzoku uwakiuta bijin awase no uchi)
「浪花風俗浮礼歌美人合の内 高らいばし屋ぐらやしき」
Hasegawa Sadanobu I (Japanese, 1809–1879)
Publisher: Kasugadô (Kawasuke) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Tanaka Chûji (Horikô Chûji) (Japanese)
Publisher: Kasugadô (Kawasuke) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Tanaka Chûji (Horikô Chûji) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1844–60 (Kôka–Ansei eras)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical chûban; 25.5 x 18.7 cm (10 1/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20715
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 125; other prints in the series: Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Edo engei hana zukushi (2009), #53; Genshoku ukiyo-e dai hyakka jiten 9 (1981), #297
Signed
Hasegawa Sadanobu ga
長谷川貞信画
長谷川貞信画
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.