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Young Man as the Bodhisattva Monju


見立文殊
Komatsuken (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1765 (Meiwa 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions 11.5 x 15.7 cm (4 1/2 x 6 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.30137
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #52; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #634; Ukiyo-e shûka supp. 2 (1982), pl. 610
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.30137, 21.5696
Right sheet of a pair, with 11.30136, 21.5697

Numbers for the short months are hidden in the pattern of the kimono.
Signed Komatsu ga
小松画
Marks Artist's seal: Komatsu
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.