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Flowers: Actor Onoe Kikugorô III, from an untitled series of Snow, Moon, and Flowers (Setsugekka)


雪月花のうち 花 三代目尾上菊五郎
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 20.8 x 18.4 cm (8 3/16 x 7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26068
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Tsuda, "Ryûô-tei Edo no Hananari...," Ukiyo-e geijutsu 161 (2011), described on p. 46, no photo
DescriptionIncludes poem by Ryûôtei Hananari.
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
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.