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Cuckoo and Azaleas (Hototogisu, satsuki), from an untitled series known as Small Flowers


中判花鳥 「子規(ほほとぎす) 杜鵑花(さつき)」
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1834 (Tenpô 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 24.1 x 19 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.23023
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Clark et al, Hokusai: Beyond ... (2017), #94; MFA, Hokusai (2013), #81; TNM, Hokusai (2005), #373; San Francisco, Hokusai & Hiroshige (1998), #94; Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 227, vertical chûban #22.02
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.23023, 21.10224, 21.10225 (left)

Poem translated in San Francisco 1998, p. 147; and in Clark et al, Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave (2017), p. 178.
Signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu
前北斎為一筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
InscriptionsChinese poem by Yang Wanli (1127-1206), poetry name Yang Chengzhai
「只驚白昼山竹裂 杜宇初聞第一声 楊誠斎」
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.