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Entertainment: Money Tree (Yokyô, Kane no naru ki), from the series Contest of Treasures (Takara awase)


「宝合 余興 金のなる木」
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Japanese
Edo period
early 1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 21 x 18 cm (8 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20605
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Another print in the series: Carpenter et al, Reading Surimono (2008), #118
Signed Aoigaoka Hokkei
葵岡北渓
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.