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Meng Zong (Môsô), from the series The Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in the Floating World (Ukiyo nijûshi kô)


「浮世二十四孝 孟宗」
Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Publisher: Igaya Kan'emon (Bunkidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 25.7 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25609
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), list #6-2 (no photo)
Signed Ôju Keisai Eisen ga
応需渓斎英泉画
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.