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Wanting to Improve One's Habits (Kuse ga naoshitai/ Fishing for Bonito in Sagami Province (Sôshû katsuo-tsuri), from the series Auspicious Desires on Land and Sea (Sankai medetai zue)


「山海目出度図会 くせが直したい 相州鰹魚釣 廿六」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Other artist: Utagawa Yoshitori-jo (Japanese, 1839–about 1870)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Tsuge Shôjirô (Hori Shôji) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37 x 25 cm (14 9/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26001
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 401-0056; POLA Research Inst., Edo bijin no yosooi (2018), pp. 20-1; the series: Robinson, Kuniyoshi (1961), list #117
DescriptionNo. 26 in the series.
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (main design); Jo Tori ga (inset)
一勇斎国芳画、女とり画
Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Murata, Rat 8
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Shôji
Artist's seal: kiri
改印:衣笠、村田、子八
彫師:彫庄治
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.