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Konami of the Kurahashiya in the Front Group of Musicians (Sakibayashi), from the series Costume Parade of the Shinmachi Quarter in Osaka (Ôsaka Shinmachi nerimono)


「大阪新町ねりもの 先はやし くらはしや 小なみ」
Yanagawa Shigenobu I (Japanese, 1787–1832)
Japanese
Edo period
1822 (Bunsei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.3 x 26.4 cm (14 11/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25838
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 124; Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Zenki Kamigata-e (1995), #4-655; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan 8, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (1990), pl. 135; Uk. taisei 10 (1930), #394
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.