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Young Couple in a Boat under a Crescent Moon


月下舟中の男女
Uchimasa (Japanese, active 1760s–1770s)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1770–75 (Meiwa 7–12)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hashira-e; 72.1 x 11.6 cm (28 3/8 x 4 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21225
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #669; Pins, The Japanese Pillar Print (1982), #257
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.21225, 21.6285
Signed Uchimasa ga
内政画
InscriptionsPoem.
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.