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Hanatsuru-dayû of the Higashi-Ôgiya as the Dragon Princess Oto-hime, from the series Costume Parade of the Shinmachi Quarter in Osaka (Ôsaka Shinmachi nerimono)


「大阪新町ねりもの 東扇屋 花鶴太夫 乙姫」
Yanagawa Shigenobu I (Japanese, 1787–1832)
Japanese
Edo period
1822 (Bunsei 5), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.3 x 26.3 cm (14 11/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25832
OUT ON LOAN
On display at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 124; Tsubouchi Museum, Zenki Kamigata-e (1995), #4-664; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan 8, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (1990), pl. 152
DescriptionThe right sheet of a pair, with 11.18086, 11.25833.
Signed Tôto Yanagawa Shigenobu
東都柳川重信
Marks Artist's seal: Yanagawa
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.