Tsurumo of the Naraya as a Flower Vendor of Kitayama (Kitayama hanaurime), from the series Gion Festival Costume Parade (Gion mikoshi arai nerimono sugata)

「祇園神輿洗　ねり物姿　北山花売女（きたやまはなうりめ）　ならや　つるも」

Urakusai Nagahide (Japanese, active about 1805–1848)
Publisher: Yamasa (Japanese)
Publisher: Kashiwaya Sôshichi (Kashisô, Hakusô)

Japanese

Edo period

1810s (late Bunka era)

Medium/Technique Woodblock/stencil print (kappazuri); ink on paper, with stenciled color

Dimensions Hosoban; 33.7 x 14.8 cm (13 1/4 x 5 13/16 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.26518

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 124; Ujlaki and Nakade, "Gion nerimono prints revisited: The list," Andon 75 (2003), GN Bunka C-13, photo p. 41; Edo-Tokyo Mus., Nishiki-e no tanjo (1996), #6-7

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。京、北山の花売娘（はなうりむすめ）に扮した奈良屋（ならや）の芸妓つるも。 -- 田辺　昌子Ｋ

Signed Nagahide ga
長秀画

Marks Publishers' marks: Yamasa han, Hakusô han
画家の印章: なし
版元: 山佐　柏宗
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.