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「徒然草」 「女はかみのめてたからんこそ人の目たつへかめれ」
Beautiful Hair, of All Things in a Woman, Is Most Likely to Catch a Man's Eye (Onna wa kami no medetakaran koso hito no me tatsubekarame), from the series Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa)
「徒然草」 「女はかみのめてたからんこそ人の目たつへかめれ」
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1831–2 (Tenpô 2–3)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Shikishiban; 19.8 x 18 cm (7 13/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25452
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
DescriptionFrom section 9 of Tsurezuregusa (a collection of essays by Kenkô, written in the early 1330s); translation by Donald Keene.
Commissioned by the Manjiren poetry circle.
Commissioned by the Manjiren poetry circle.
Signed
Hokkei
北渓
北渓
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.