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Children at Play: Imitating the Firefighters' Procession at Famous Places in Edo from Nihonbashi to Takanawa (Tôto meisho Nihonbashi yori Takanawa no fûkei; Kodomo asobi matoi gokko)


「東都名所日本橋徒高輪之風景 子供あそび纏固図小(ごっこ)」
Utagawa Kuniteru II (Kunitsuna II) (Japanese, 1830–1874)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36.1 x 52.9 cm (14 3/16 x 20 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36839a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Mus., Ukiyo-e ni egakareta kodomotachi (2014), #235 (complete trioptych)
DescriptionTwo sheets of incomplete triptych.
Signed Kunitsuna ga (on right sheet), Ôkô Kunitsuna ga (on left sheet)
国綱画 應好国綱画
Marks Censor's seal: Boar 5 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:亥五改
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.