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DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012

Yûgao: Yazama's Wife Orie, from the series Genji Clouds Matched with Ukiyo-e Pictures (Genji kumo ukiyo-e awase)


「源氏雲浮世画合(げんじくもうきよゑあハせ) 夕顔 矢間氏の室織江」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Iseya Ichiemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1845–46 (Kôka 2–3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 x 24.3 cm (14 3/16 x 9 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.28817
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S45.4; the series: Marks et al., Genji's World (2012), list #G447 (no photos)
DescriptionNo. 04 in the series.

MFA impressions: *11.28817 (deaccessioned in 2012), *11.28818 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.28819, 11.42958
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: Watari
No blockcutter's mark
改印:渡
彫師:なし
InscriptionsPoem: Yorite koso/ sore ka to mo mime/ tasogare ni/ honobono mitsuru/ hana no yûgao
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.