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「（山海）めでたいづゑ まけてもらいたひ 大隈 槫板」
Wanting to Get a Discount (Makete moraitai)/Veranda Planks from Ôsumi Province (Ôsumi kureita), from the series Auspicious Desires on Land and Sea (Sankai medetai zue)
「（山海）めでたいづゑ まけてもらいたひ 大隈 槫板」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Other artist: Utagawa Yoshitori-jo (Japanese, 1839–about 1870)
Publisher: Mitaya Kihachi (Japanese)
Other artist: Utagawa Yoshitori-jo (Japanese, 1839–about 1870)
Publisher: Mitaya Kihachi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5), 12th month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 36.5 x 25.6 cm (14 3/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25991
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
This playful series matches small scenes of the provinces by Kuniyoshi’s two young daughters with close-ups of fashionable city women who show their desire for various commodities. At a night market just before New Year, a warmly dressed woman tries to decide between a potted Adonis plant and an arrangement of pine, bamboo, and plum. She wonders whether, if she buys both of them, the florist might give her a discount.
Catalogue Raisonné
Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Edo engei hana zukushi (2009), #28; the series: Robinson, Kuniyoshi (1961), list #117
DescriptionNo. 47 in the series.
Signed
Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (main design); Jo Tori ga (inset)
一勇斎国芳画（主絵） 女とり画（挿入）
一勇斎国芳画（主絵） 女とり画（挿入）
Marks
Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Murata, Rat 12
No blockcutter's mark
Artist's seal: kiri
改印：衣笠、村田、子十二
彫師：なし
No blockcutter's mark
Artist's seal: kiri
改印：衣笠、村田、子十二
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.
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.