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Making Chestnut Pastries (Kuri mochi kyoku tsuki), from the series Entertainments of the Niwaka Festival in the Yoshiwara in Full Swing (Seirô Niwaka zensei asobi)


「青楼俄全盛遊 栗餅曲つき」 (校合摺)
Katsukawa Shunzan (Japanese, active about 1781–1801)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (key block); ink on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 27.1 x 20 cm (10 11/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.24861
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Shunzan ga
春山画
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.