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Courtesan Wearing White Robes for the Hassaku Observance


Hassaku yûjo zu
八朔遊女図
Utagawa Yoshimori II (Japanese, born in 1854)
Japanese
Meiji era
latter half of the 19th century

Medium/Technique Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions Image: 138.1 x 54.4 cm (54 3/8 x 21 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.7559
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. III (Ukiyo-e), no. 485
Signed Hôseisai Kuniharu ga
芳盛斎国晴画
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.