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The Highranking Courtesan's Habit of Squeeking Like a Mouse When She's Happy about Something (Ureshii koto ni nezumi naki o suru keisei no kuse), from the series Forty-eight Mannerisms in the Floating World, Part 2 (Ukiyo yonjûhachi kuse, nihen)


「浮気四十八癖二篇 うれしゐ事に鼡なきをするけゐせいのくせ」
Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Publisher: Ôtaya Sakichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1820s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38 x 25.7 cm (14 15/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25608
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Other prints in the series: POLA Research Inst., Edo bijin no yosooi (2018), pp. 74-5; Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), #35
Signed Keisai Eisen ga
渓斎英泉画
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.