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Konabe of Itamigoma as a Vendor of New Year Charms in the Form of Love Letters (Kesôbumi), from the series Costume Parade of the Shimanouchi Quarter (Shimanouchi nerimono)


「島之内ねりもの けそう文 伊丹駒 小なべ」
Ryûsai Shigeharu (Japanese, 1803–1853)
Japanese
Edo period
1836 (Tenpô 7), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.1 x 25.5 cm (14 5/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26583
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 125; Kamigata yakusha-e no sekai (2001), #65; Keyes 1973, #336 (no photo)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.824.12, 11.26583, 17.3214.11

From a collective series by Hokuei, Hokuju, Sadahiro, Sadanobu, and Shigeharu.
Signed Ryûsai Shigeharu ga
柳斎重春画
Marks Artist's seal: Yamaguchi uji Shigeharu
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.