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Costume of a Male Courtier, with Pine Shoots


小松に公家の服装
Ryûryûkyo Shinsai (Japanese, 1764?–1820)
Japanese
Edo period
1808 (Bunka 5) (?)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Kokonotsugiri; 14.2 x 19 cm (5 9/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20039
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDated New Year of the Dragon (Tatsu no haru), possibly 1808.
Signed Shinsai
辰斎
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.