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The Jewel River of Plovers (Chidori no Tamagawa): Takigawa of the Ôgiya, kamuro Onami and Menami (Ôgiya uchi Takigawa, Onami, Menami), from the series Six Jewel Rivers in the Pleasure Quarters (Seirô Mu Tamagawa)


「青楼六玉川 扇屋内 滝川 男なみ 女なみ」 千鳥の玉川
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Chûemon (Chûsuke) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1793 (Kansei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 24.7 x 18 cm (9 3/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25160
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #453.2, pl. 129
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
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.