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Plum Branch, Ball, Battledore and Shuttlecock


梅が枝に手毬と羽子板
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1798–9 (Kansei 10–11)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Kokonotsugiri; 14.4 x 17.4 cm (5 11/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25196
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Sôri aratame Hokusai ga
宗理改北斎画
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.