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Clearing Weather at Koami no mori (Koami no mori seiran): The Hyakuseki-rô Restaurant in Shin-Yoshi-chô and the Geisha Yama of the Masakiya in Moto-Ôsaka-machi, from the series Beauties Matched with Eight Views of Restaurants (Mitate kaiseki hakkei)


「美立会席八景 小網の森晴嵐」 「新葭町百尺楼」 「元大さか町 正木屋やま」
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Morimoto Junzaburô (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Hira (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1875 (Meiji 8), July (?)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37 x 25.5 cm (14 9/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.34930
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionThe complete series of eight: 11.34930, 11.34931, 11.44425 through 11.44430.
Signed Toyohara Kunichika hitsu
豊原国周筆
Marks Censor's seal: Boar 7 (?)
Blockcutter's mark: Horikô Hei (Hira ?)
Artist's seal: toshidama
改印:亥七ヵ
彫師:彫工平
Inscriptions「一歩つゝ晴ゆく空や渡りとり梅素」
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 15, 2000)

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.