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Mitsuuji in the Suma Chapter, and Muraogi (in inset), from the series The False Murasaki's Rustic Genji (Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji)


「偽紫ゐなか源氏 須磨の巻の光氏」「むら荻」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon (Senkakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.5 x 25.5 cm (14 3/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25944
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks et al., Genji's World (2012), list #G297-14 (no photo); Fukuda, Enshoku Genji-e (1991), fig. 66
Signed Kôchôrô Kunisada ga
香蝶楼国貞画
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.