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Sôshiarai Komachi
草子洗小町図
Ono no Komachi Washing a Manuscript
Sôshiarai Komachi
草子洗小町図
Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764)
Japanese
Edo period
about Shôtoku (1711–16) - early Kyôhô (1716–36) eras
Medium/Technique
Hanging scroll; ink, color, gold, and silver on paper
Dimensions
Image: 38 x 55.8 cm (14 15/16 x 21 15/16 in.)
Overall (including braid): 143 x 76.7 cm
Overall (including braid): 143 x 76.7 cm
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.7604
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
Catalogue Raisonné
Drama and Desire (2007), cat. no. 15; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. III (Ukiyo-e), no. 80; Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #39
Signed
Okumura Masanobu zu
Marks
seal: Masanobu
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.
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.