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Poem by Ôe no Chisato: The Shirabyôshi Dancer Giô, from the series Ogura Imitations of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Ogura nazorae Hyakunin isshu)


「小倉擬百人一首 大江千里 白拍子祇王」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Ibaya Senzaburô (Dansendô) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Matsushima Fusajirô (Horikô Fusajirô, Hori Fusa) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1845–48 (Kôka 2–Kaei 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 25 cm (14 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36684
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Herwig and Mostow, The Hundred Poets Compared (2007), #23; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S46.23
DescriptionNo. 23 from a series jointly designed by Hiroshige, Kunisada, and Kuniyoshi.
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: Kinugasa
Blockcutter's mark: Horikô Fusajirô
改印:衣笠
彫師:彫工房次郎
InscriptionsPoem: Tsuki mireba/ chiji ni mono koso/ anashikere/ wagami hitotsu no/ ki ni wa aranedo
月みれば ちぢに物こそ かなしけれ わが身ひとつの 秋にはあらねど

西八条に時めきし舞扇さへ 秋風の忽嵯峨野に捨てられて 錦の袖を墨に替 愛たく奏でし朗詠ハ 仏の御名とかへたるハ 実に殊勝なる心とやいハん
 柳下亭種員筆記
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.