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Kisae of the Mimasuya as Tokiwa Gozen, from the series Gion Festival Costume Parade (Gion mikoshi arai nerimono sugata)


「祇園神輿はらひ ねり物姿 常磐御前 三升や きさえ」
Urakusai Nagahide (Japanese, active about 1805–1848)
Publisher: Yamasa (Japanese)
Publisher: Sutô
Japanese
Edo period
about 1815–24 (Bunka 12–Bunsei 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock/stencil print (kappazuri); ink on paper, with stenciled color
Dimensions Hosoban; 33.9 x 15.3 cm (13 3/8 x 6 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26554
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 124; another design of the same subject: Ujlaki and Nakade, "Gion nerimono prints revisited: The list," Andon 75 (2003), Bunka A-21, photos p. 13 (color) and p. 38 (bw)
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.