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己羊美人合之内 浄瑠璃本を読む美人
Woman Reading Jôruri Libretto, from the series Comparison of Beauties for the Year of the Goat (Tsuchinoto-hitsuji bijin awase no uchi)
己羊美人合之内 浄瑠璃本を読む美人
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
1799 (Kansei 11)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Kokonotsugiri; 13.9 x 15.4 cm (5 1/2 x 6 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25205
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kobayashi Fumiko, "Poetry Groups," in Carpenter, ed., Hokusai and His Age (2005), p. 164, fig. 4; Forrer/Goncourt, Hokusai (1988), p. 62, fig. 61
DescriptionSeries title on first sheet only.
Signed
Hokusai ga
北斎画
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.
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.