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Banshoku zukô (Designs for All Artisans)


萬職図考
Katsushika Taito II (Japanese, active about 1810–1853)
Author of preface: Nanritei Kiraku (Japanese, active in 1804–1835)
Publisher: Kawachiya Mohei (Gungyokudô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Kawachiya Tôbei (Japanese)
Publisher: Suharaya Shinbei (Kobayashi Shinbei, Sûzanbô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Gunkyokudô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
prefaces to volumes 1 and 2: 1835 (kinoto hitsuji)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Dimensions Overall: 22.3 x 15.4 cm (8 3/4 x 6 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number2000.1248.1-3
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 281
Signed artist (front endpaper): Katsushika Taito sensei ga
見返:葛飾戴斗先生画
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 14, 2001)

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.