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Yagi of the Mimasuya as Yaegiri from the Play Komochi Yamanba, from the series Gion Shrine Costume Parade (Gion mikoshi arai, nerimono sugata)


「祇園神輿はらい ねりもの姿 こもち山姥(やまんば)八重桐(やえぎり) 三ますや やぎ」
Urakusai Nagahide (Japanese, active about 1805–1848)
Publisher: Yamasa (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1813 (Bunka 10)
Object Place: Kyoto, Japan

Medium/Technique Woodblock/stencil print (kappazuri); ink on paper, with stenciled color
Dimensions Hosoban; 33.5 x 14.6 cm (13 3/16 x 5 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26544
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 1813-11 (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。子持ちの山姥(やまんば)八重桐に扮した三桝屋(みますや)の芸妓やぎ。 -- 田辺 昌子K
Signed Nagahide ga
長秀画
Marks 画家の印章: なし
版元: 山佐
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.