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Album of Courtesans: Masatsune


傾城絵本 「まさつね」
Torii Kiyonobu I (Japanese, 1664–1729)
Publisher: Hangiya Shichirôbei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
colophon: 1700 (Genroku 13)

Medium/Technique Page of a folding album; ink on paper, with hand-applied color
Dimensions Overall: 33 x 22.5 cm (13 x 8 7/8 in.)
Image: 27 x 18 cm (10 5/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.30233
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #25
Signed artist (colophon): Wagako Torii Shôhei Kiyonobu zu
奥付け:和画工 鳥居庄兵衛清信図
Marks seal: Kiyonobu
印章:清信
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.