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Masaji of the Yorozuya as a Musician (Sakibayashi), from the series Gion Festival Costume Parade (Gion mikoshi arai nerimono sugata)


「祇園神輿洗 ねりもの姿 先はやし 万屋政路(よろずやまさじ)」
Urakusai Nagahide (Japanese, active about 1805–1848)
Publisher: Yamasa (Japanese)
Publisher: Sutô
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 Number11.26535
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 123; Ujlaki and Nakade, "Gion nerimono prints revisited: The list," Andon 75 (2003), GN 1814-2 (no photo)
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。練物で演奏される先囃子(さきばやし)で太鼓(たいこ)を奏する万屋の芸妓政路。 -- 田辺 昌子K
Signed Nagahide ga
長秀画
Marks Publishers' marks: Yamasa han, Sutô han
画家の印章: なし
版元: 山佐 須藤
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.