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Brine Maidens (Shiokumi) at Tago Bay


田子の浦の汐汲み
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1783 (Tenmei 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hashira-e; 68.2 x 11.8 cm (26 7/8 x 4 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21274
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #473 (no photo); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #500; Pins, The Japanese Pillar Print (1982), #686; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #513, pl. XCIV
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.990, 11.21274, 21.5553
Signed Kiyonaga ga
清長画
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.