Aimi of the Maru-Ebiya, kamuro Tsuruno and Kameji, from the series Female Poetic Immortals in the Modern Style, a Set of Thirty-six (Imayô onna kasen, sanjûrokuban tsuzuki) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Aimi of the Maru-Ebiya, kamuro Tsuruno and Kameji, from the series Female Poetic Immortals in the Modern Style, a Set of Thirty-six (Imayô onna kasen, sanjûrokuban tsuzuki)

Aimi of the Maru-Ebiya, kamuro Tsuruno and Kameji, from the series Female Poetic Immortals in the Modern Style, a Set of Thirty-six (Imayô onna kasen, sanjûrokuban tsuzuki)

「今容女歌仙　三十六番続　丸海老屋　会見　つるの　かめし」

Kitagawa Shikimaro (Japanese, dates unknown)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1813 (Bunka 10), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.5 x 26.4 cm (15 3/16 x 10 3/8 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.25817

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Signed Shikimaro ga
式麿画

Marks Censor's seals: kiwame, Maruya Bun'emon
改印：極、丸文

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.