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Genre Scenes of Edo in the Four Seasons


Edo shiki fûzoku zu
江戸四季風俗図巻
School of: Hishikawa Moronobu (Japanese, died 1694)
Japanese
Edo period
Jôkyô (1684 - 88) - Genroku (1688–1704) eras

Medium/Technique Handscroll; ink, color, gold, and silver on silk
Dimensions 34.4 x 859.5 cm (13 9/16 x 338 3/8 in.)
Overall: 46.3 x 953.7 cm
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.7619
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Drama and Desire (2007), cat. no. 3; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. III (Ukiyo-e), no. 40; Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #6
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.