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The Octopus Pine at Nakanoshima (Nakanoshima Tako no matsu), 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 中之島蛸の松」
Hasegawa Sadanobu I (Japanese, 1809–1879)
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 18.5 cm (10 1/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20719
NOT ON VIEW
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
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.