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Poem by Koshikibu no Naishi: Hatsu-jo, from the series Ogura Imitations of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Ogura nazorae hyakunin isshu)


「小倉擬百人一首 小式部内伺 はつ女」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Ibaya Senzaburō (Dansendō) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Matsushima Fusajirô (Horikô Fusajirô, Hori Fusa) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1845–48 (Kôka 2–Kaei 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.2 x 25 cm (14 2/3 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.30334
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Herwig and Mostow, The Hundred Poets Compared (2007), #60; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S46.60
DescriptionNo. 60 from a series jointly designed by Hiroshige, Kunisada, and Kuniyoshi.

Another print based on this design, possibly a pirate edition: 00.1224 .
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: Hama
Blockcutter's mark: Horikô Fusajirô
改印:浜
彫師:彫工房次郎
InscriptionsPoem: Ôeyama/ ikuno no michi no/ tôkereba/ mada fumi mo mizu/ Amanohashidate
大江山 いく野のみちの 遠ければ まだふみもみず 天のはし立

しばなく鴉ハ 尾上が知死期とハしらずして持出し 御宿使ひの革文箱・紐さへながき書置に 恨の草履を見て驚き 当坐に敵岩藤を討しハ 遖男々敷烈女なり
 柳下亭種員筆記
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.