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Budai (Hotei) Manipulating a Doll


Hotei zu
Ningyo wo ayatsuru Hotei
人形を操る布袋
Hishikawa Sôri (Japanese, active about 1789–1818)
Japanese
Edo period
about Kyôwa era (1801–04)

Medium/Technique Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
Dimensions Image: 104.3 x 26.2 cm (41 1/16 x 10 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.7448
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. III (Ukiyo-e), no. 408
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.