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Taking an Order for Hot Sake (Okan o kiku), from the series An Assortment of Chrysanthemums in the Modern Style (Imayô kiku soroi)


「時世粧菊揃(いまやうきくぞろひ) おかんをきく」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Kojimaya Jûbei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1845 (Kôka 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 x 23.6 cm (14 3/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36324
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Kuniyoshi & Kunisada (2016), #137; the series: Robinson, Kuniyoshi (1961), list #128
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: Mura
No blockcutter's mark
改印:村
彫師:なし
InscriptionsPoem by Umeya
呑うちに かはるてうしの かん所 糸ひく猪口の 酒とミたれて 梅屋
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.