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Scroll for the Sleeve (Sode no maki)

袖の巻

Attributed to: Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1785 (Tenmei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Horizontal hashira-e; each sheet: 12.6 x 67.8 cm (4 15/16 x 26 11/16 in.); complete scroll: 12.6 x 902.3 cm (4 15/16 x 355 1/4 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession NumberRES.09.319

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Clark et al., Shunga (2013), cat. no. 45; Uhlenbeck & Winkel, eds., Japanese Erotic Fantasies (exh. cat., 2006), #31; Hayashi & Lane, Ukiyo-e shunga meihin shûsei 24 (1999)

DescriptionSet of twelve woodblock prints plus a printed preface, mounted as a handscroll.
Preface text translated in Clark et al. 2013, p. 182.

Signed Unsigned
無款

ProvenanceBy 1909, sold by an unidentified collector or dealer in Japan to William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston; 1909, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 10, 1909)