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「三景の内 天橋立 其二 小式部内使」
The Three Famous Scenic Views (Sankei no uchi): No. 2, Amanohashidate: Koshikibu no Naishi
「三景の内 天橋立 其二 小式部内使」
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1833 (Tenpô 4)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Shikishiban; 21 x 18 cm (8 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.24964
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
McKee, J. Poetry Prints (2006), #21 (C only); Mirviss w/ Carpenter, Jewels of J. Printmaking (2000), #57 (C only); Keyes, Art of Surimono (Chester Beatty cat., 1985), vol. 1, #s 151-2 (R and C only); Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 157 (R and L only)
DescriptionTriptych: 11.24692 (left), 11.24693 (right), 11.24694 (center); no virtual record
MFA impressions: 11.24692 (left), 11.24693 (right), 11.24694 (center) (photographed separately, no virtual record); 21.10401-3 (photographed together)
Poems for this sheet (C) translated in McKee 2006, p. 81; Keyes 1985, vol. 1, p. 183; and Goodall, Living for the Moment (Bowman Coll. exh. cat., 2015), pp. 116-7.
MFA impressions: 11.24692 (left), 11.24693 (right), 11.24694 (center) (photographed separately, no virtual record); 21.10401-3 (photographed together)
Poems for this sheet (C) translated in McKee 2006, p. 81; Keyes 1985, vol. 1, p. 183; and Goodall, Living for the Moment (Bowman Coll. exh. cat., 2015), pp. 116-7.
Signed
Hokkei
北渓
北渓
InscriptionsCenter:
Poem by Sei Shônagon: Ôeyama/ ikuno no michi no/ tôkereba/ mada fumi mo mizu/ Amanohashidate
Poem by Ômi Hino Chibensha Masumi: Ori koso are/ kasumi watarite/ murasaki no/ ue naki haru no/ hashidate no matsu
Poem by Sei Shônagon: Ôeyama/ ikuno no michi no/ tôkereba/ mada fumi mo mizu/ Amanohashidate
Poem by Ômi Hino Chibensha Masumi: Ori koso are/ kasumi watarite/ murasaki no/ ue naki haru no/ hashidate no matsu
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.