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Asao and Iso of the Mimasuya as Figures from the Soap Advertisement (Araikô kanban sugata), from the series Gion Festival Costume Parade (Gion mikoshi arai nerimono sugata)


「祇園神輿あらひ ねりもの姿 あらひ香かんばん姿 三舛(みます)や あさを 同 いそ
Urakusai Nagahide (Japanese, active about 1805–1848)
Publisher: Yamasa (Japanese)
Publisher: Daibun
Japanese
Edo period
1814 (Bunka 11)
Object Place: Kyoto, Japan

Medium/Technique Woodblock/stencil print (kappazuri); ink on paper, with stenciled color
Dimensions Hosoban; 33.5 x 15 cm (13 3/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26504
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan..." (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 123; Ujlaki and Nakade, "Gion nerimono prints revisited: The list," Andon 75 (2003), GN 1814-8, photo p. 35; Ujlaki, "The Gion Parade Stencil Prints," Andon 63 (1999), p. 12, fig. 9
Description京の祇園祭の行事の一つで、芸妓たちが仮装する練物(ねりもの)を描いたシリーズ。洗香(あらいこう)の看板絵(かんばんえ)に描かれた人物に扮した三舛屋(みますや)の芸妓あさをと舞子いそ。 -- 田辺 昌子K
Signed Nagahide ga
長秀画
Marks Publishers' marks: Yamasa han, Daibun han
画家の印章: なし
版元: 山佐 大文
改印: なし
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.