Wanting to Have a Good Dream (Yoi yume de mo mitai)/ Duck Caught in Nets in Kôzuke Province (Jôshû kasumiami kamo), from the series Auspicious Desires on Land and Sea (Sankai medetai zue)

「山海めでたい図会　よい夢でも見たい　上州霞網鳧　四」

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Other artist: Utagawa Yoshitori-jo (Japanese, 1839–about 1870)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1852 (Kaei 5), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.1 x 25.1 cm (14 5/8 x 9 7/8 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.28675

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mueller et al., Competition and Collaboration (2007), #151

DescriptionNo. 04 in the series.

MFA impressions: 11.26012, 11.28675, 11.29059

Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (main design); Yoshitori ga (inset)
一勇斎国芳画　芳とり画

Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Watanabe, Rat 7
No blockcutter's mark
Artist's seal: kiri
改印：米良、渡辺、子七
彫師：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.