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DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012

Takashima Ohisa, from an untitled series of famous beauties of Edo


江戸高名美人 「高しまおひさ」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Iwatoya Kisaburô (Eirindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1792–93 (Kansei 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical aiban
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.23010
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #206.4, pl. 113
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.14317, *11.23010 (deaccessioned in 2012)
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
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.