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An Up-to-date Spring Scene (Tôsei haru geshiki)


「当盛春景色」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Ômiya Heihachi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1829 (Bunsei 12)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.7 x 26 cm (14 13/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.28804
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kôbe Mus., Western Blue/Seiyô no ai (2007), #107; Suzuki 1992, #228 (complete triptych)
DescriptionCenter sheet of incomplete triptych.

MFA impressions: 11.16059-60 (center and left sheets), 11.28804 (center sheet only)
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.