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Budai (Hotei)


Hotei zu
布袋図
Formerly attributed to: Yamada Dôan (Japanese, active 16th century)
Japanese
Edo period
18th–19th centuries

Medium/Technique Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
Dimensions 94.0 x 48.4 cm (37 x 19 1/16 in.) (height x width)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.6322
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 1 (Japanese ed. 1997, English ed. 1998), ch. VI (Ink ptg.), no. 46
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.