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Mitate Rashômon
見立羅生門図
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Japanese
Edo period
Bunsei era (1818 - 30)

Medium/Technique Panel; ink and color on paper
Dimensions Image: 50.2 x 64.6 cm (19 3/4 x 25 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.7380
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. III (Ukiyo-e), no. 421; MFA, Bosuton bijutsukan nikuhitsu ukiyo-e, v. 3 (2000), pl. 82
Signed Hokkei
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.