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洲崎弁天の初日の出
Sunrise on New Year's Day at Susaki Benten Shrine
洲崎弁天の初日の出
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Japanese
Edo period
1821 (?)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, and metallic pigment on paper
Dimensions
Shikishiban; 21 x 18.3 cm (8 1/4 x 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20580
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Haft, Aesthetic Strategies (2013), fig. 55
DescriptionPoem translated in Haft, p. 110. The print may have been made for a Year of the Snake, such as 1821, because snakes were sacred to the goddess Benten.
Signed
Aoigaoka Hokkei
葵岡北渓
葵岡北渓
InscriptionsPoem: Hatsu hinode/ mukau Susaki ni/ Benten no/ tama no hikari no/ haru wa kinikeri
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.