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Eiji of the Sakuraiya in Dance of the Gagaku Musician (Reijin mai), from the series Gion Festival Costume Parade (Gion mikoshi arai nerimono sugata)


「祇園神輿洗 ねりもの姿 伶人舞(「れいしんまい」) さくら井や 栄治(えいじ)」
Urakusai Nagahide (Japanese, active about 1805–1848)
Publisher: Yamasa (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1814 (Bunka 11)

Medium/Technique Woodblock/stencil print (kappazuri); ink on paper, with stenciled color
Dimensions Hosoban; 33.5 x 14.5 cm (13 3/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26548
NOT ON VIEW
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 1814-24, photo p. 36
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.675, 11.26548
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。宮廷(きゅうてい)などで行われた雅楽(ががく)の伶人舞(れいじんまい)の姿に扮した桜井屋(さくらいや)の芸妓栄治。 -- 田辺 昌子K
Signed Nagahide ga
長秀画
Marks Publisher's mark: Yamasa han
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.