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高下駄の美人
Young Woman in High Geta
高下駄の美人
Artist unknown, Japanese
Attributed to: Ishikawa Toyonobu (Japanese, 1711–1785)
Designer: Gihô (Japanese, active about 1765)
Attributed to: Ishikawa Toyonobu (Japanese, 1711–1785)
Designer: Gihô (Japanese, active about 1765)
Japanese
Edo period
1765 (Meiwa 2)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical chûban; 23.9 x 18.8 cm (9 7/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.30133
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #48; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #666; Ukiyo-e shûka supp. 2 (1982), pl. 636
DescriptionThe kimono draped over her head has the numbers of the short months for 1765 hidden in its pattern.
Signed
Kyosen renjû Gihô kô (designed by Gihô of the Kyosen group)
巨川連中義鳳工
巨川連中義鳳工
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.