Wives and Tatami Mats Are Best When New (Nyôbô to tatami atarashii ga yoi); One Sister-in-law Is Like a Thousand Demons (Kojûto hitori oni senbiki ni mukau); What Is Joined Together May Be Separated (Awasemono wa hanaremono), from the series One Hundred Pictures by Kyôsai (Kyôsai hyakuzu)

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Wives and Tatami Mats Are Best When New (Nyôbô to tatami atarashii ga yoi); One Sister-in-law Is Like a Thousand Demons (Kojûto hitori oni senbiki ni mukau); What Is Joined Together May Be Separated (Awasemono wa hanaremono), from the series One Hundred Pictures by Kyôsai (Kyôsai hyakuzu)

狂斎百図　「女房と畳は新しいが良い」　「小姑一人鬼千匹にむかう」　「合物ははなれもの」

Kawanabe Kyôsai (Japanese, 1831–1889)

Japanese

Edo period

1863–66 (Bunkyû 3–Keiô 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical yotsugiri (quarter ôban); 18.6 x 12.6 cm (7 5/16 x 4 15/16 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.36997

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Osaka City Mus., Edo no giga (2018), #227; Kaikan sanjû shûnen kinen Kawanabe Kyôsai kinen bijutsukan cat. (2008), p. 102, #0773 (sheet of 4); Oikawa and Yamaguchi, Kyôsai no giga (1992), #91

DescriptionMFA impressions:
Uncut sheet: 11.45393.21
Right side only: 11.22646, 11.36997
Left side only: 11.22641, 11.37000

Signed Kyôsai
狂斎

Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
No publisher's mark
改印：なし
彫師：なし
版元：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.