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牡丹
Issuisai Kunihiro (Japanese, active 1850s)
Publisher: Masudaya Ginjirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1853 (Kaei 6), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions 23.5 x 27.7 cm (9 1/4 x 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25852
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Kunihiro
国広
Marks Censors' seals: Hama, Magome, Ox 1
No blockcutter's mark
改印:浜、馬込、丑正
彫師:なし
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.