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Pregnant Boy, from the series One Hundred Comic Poems (Fûryû odoke hyakku)


風流おどけ百句 孕んだ男
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Publisher: Iseya Rihei (Kinjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1811 (Bunka 8)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (key block); ink on paper
Dimensions 11.9 x 18.3 cm (4 11/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.28573
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Dai Hokusai ten (1993), print #149; Nagoya City Mus., Hokusai (1991), #35; Dai Hokusai ten (1993), print #149; Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 224, horizontal koban #17.3; the series: Calza, Hokusai (2003), III.73.1-3 (this design not shown)
Signed Unsigned
無款
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.