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Catching Fireflies in the Garden of a Mansion


屋敷の庭の蛍狩り (校合摺)
Katsukawa Shunzan (Japanese, active about 1781–1801)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1785–89 (late Tenmei era)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (key block); ink on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.4 x 26.9 cm (15 1/8 x 10 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.24859
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionCenter sheet of an incomplete triptych; 11.14889 (color) is the left sheet.
Signed Shunzan ga
春山画
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.