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みみずく
Horned Owl on Magnolia Branch
みみずく
After: Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820)
Japanese
Meiji-era copy of Edo-period design
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Shikishiban; 20 x 18.3 cm (7 7/8 x 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25170
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Keyes, Art of Surimono (Chester Beatty cat., 1985), vol. 2, List of surimono copies in square format, #180; Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 395 (this edition); the original, with seal of Shunman: TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 2 (1962), #1653
DescriptionGroup B copy ?
Poems translated in Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 381.
Poems translated in Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 381.
Signed
Unsigned
無款
無款
InscriptionsPoems by Shunchôtei and Senshun'an.
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.
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.