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Daikoku and others, from the series A Children's Handbook of String Pictures (Kyokumusubi osana tehon)


「曲結稚画手本(きょくむすびをさなゑてほん)」 大こく 等
Kawanabe Kyôsai (Japanese, 1831–1889)
Publisher: Jôshûya Jûzô / Jûbei (Kinjûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 9th month

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 Number11.36775
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bakumatsu Meiji no tensai eshi Kawanabe Kyôsai ten (1998), #106; Oikawa, Clark & Forrer, Comic Genius: Kawanabe Kyôsai/Kyôsai giga kyôga ten (1996), #139; Edo-Tokyo Museum, Kawanabe Kyôsai to Edo Tôkyô (1994), #54
DescriptionPrints in the series: 11.36773, 11.36774, 11.36775, 11.37168
Signed Ôju Seisei Chikamaro
応需惺々周麿
Marks Censor's seal: Boar 9 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:亥九改
彫師:なし
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.