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Activities of the Fourth Month


(四月の風俗)
Urakawa Issen (Japanese)
Publisher: Watahei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1830–43 (Tenpô era)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.3 x 25.6 cm (14 5/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36050
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 128
DescriptionPossibly intended to be cut into two horizontal chûban sheets.
Signed Naniwa Issen ga
浪花一船画
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)

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.