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Two Women with a Koto, from the series Five Great Powers (Godairiki)


「五大力」 琴
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1803

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Kokonotsugiri; 14.1 x 18.8 cm (5 9/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.30481
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Another print in the series: Forrer/Goncourt, Hokusai (1988), p. 67, fig. 70
Signed Gakyôjin Hokusai ga
画狂人北斎画
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.