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花暦
Artist unknown, Japanese
Designer: Kikurensha Kyosen (Japanese, 1722–1777)
Japanese
Edo period
1765 (Meiwa 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (benizuri-e); ink and linited color on paper, with embossing
Dimensions Horizontal koban; 13.5 x 21 cm (5 5/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.30131
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #681; Ukiyo-e shûka supp. 2 (1982), pl. 646
DescriptionThe sequence of months reads top to bottom and right to left, with long months represented by pink flowers and short months by white flowers.
Signed Kyosen-ren kô (designed by Kyosen's group)
巨川連考
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.