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DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012

Whetstone Suggesting the Tonsure, from the series Women in Benkei-checked Fabrics (Shimazoroi onna Benkei)


「縞揃女弁慶(しまぞろひおんあべんけい)」 砥の自剃
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Ibaya Kyûbei (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Sugawa Renkichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1844 (Tenpô 15/Kôka 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.7 x 25.5 cm (14 7/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.28694
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Kuniyoshi & Kunisada (2016), #116; TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 3 (1963), #2992
DescriptionMFA impressions: *11.28694 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.36361
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: Hama
Blockcutter's mark: Renkichi Horikô
改印:浜
彫師:廉吉彫工
Inscriptions宝珠亭舟唄
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.