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狂斎百図 「鬼のいぬ間にせんたく」「おやににぬ子ハ鬼児」
Doing the Laundry While the Demon Is Away (Oni no inu ma ni sentaku), A Child That Does Not Resemble Its Parents Is a Demon Child (Oya ni ninu ko wa oni no ko), from the series One Hundred Pictures by Kyôsai (Kyôsai hyakuzu)
狂斎百図 「鬼のいぬ間にせんたく」「おやににぬ子ハ鬼児」
Kawanabe Kyôsai (Japanese, 1831–1889)
Japanese
Edo period
1866 (Keiô 2), 9th month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical yotsugiri (quarter ôban); 18.7 x 12.6 cm (7 3/8 x 4 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22644
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kaikan sanjû shûnen kinen Kawanabe Kyôsai kinen bijutsukan cat. (2008), p. 103, #0794 (sheet of 4); Tokita, E de tanoshimu Edo no kotowaza (2005), p. 76 (detail)
Signed
Kyôsai ga
狂斎画
狂斎画
Marks
Censor's seal: Tiger 9 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
No publisher's mark
改印：寅九改
彫師：なし
版元：なし
No blockcutter's mark
No publisher's mark
改印：寅九改
彫師：なし
版元：なし
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.
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.