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Woman and Small Boy Listening to Cuckoo, from the series A Collection of Songs Set to Koto Music (Koto no kumiuta zukushi)


「琴の組歌つくし」 ほととぎす
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Eshima (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1840 (Tenpô 11)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.5 x 23.7 cm (14 3/8 x 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.28693
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The series: Robinson, Kuniyoshi (1961), list #97
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.15997, 11.28693, 11.36329
Signed Chôôrô Kuniyoshi ga
朝櫻楼国芳画
Marks No censor's seal
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.