Autumn: Scene from The False Murasaki's Rustic Genji (Nise Murasaki inaka Genji) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Autumn: Scene from The False Murasaki's Rustic Genji (Nise Murasaki inaka Genji)

Autumn: Scene from The False Murasaki's Rustic Genji (Nise Murasaki inaka Genji)

Nise Murasaki inaka Genji zu
偐柴田舎源氏図　秋

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)

Japanese

Edo period

about Tenpô 10 (1839)

Medium/Technique One from a set of three hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk

Dimensions Image: 70 x 44 cm (27 9/16 x 17 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection

Accession Number11.4610

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia

ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. III (Ukiyo-e), no. 359-(2); Izzard, Kunisada's World (1993), #83

ProvenancePrior to 1886 purchased by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa; 1886 purchased by Charles Goddard Weld from Ernest Fenollosa; 1911 bequeathed by Charles Goddard Weld to the Museum.