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Lotteries for Shrines and Temples (Jinja bukkaku no ichi no tomi), from the series Modern Specialties and Dyed Fabrics (Tôsei meibutsu kanoko)


「当世名物鹿子 神社仏閣の一乃富」
Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.7 x 25 cm (14 1/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22531
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Other prints in the series: Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), #175-177; Chiba Mus., Ukiyo-e bi no kiwami (Baur coll. exh. cat., 2001), #92
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.22531 (Yamaguchiya edition), 11.22948 (Ômiya edition)
Signed Keisai Eisen ga
渓斎英泉画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.