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As the Cherry Is To Flowers, the Samurai Is To Men (Hana wa sakuragi, hito wa bushi), The Child in the Arms is More Precious Than the One Carried on the Back (Obutta ko yori daita ko), Retribution for Eating Game (Shishi kutta mukui), from the series One Hundred Pictures by Kyôsai (Kyôsai hyakuzu)


狂斎百図  「花ハ桜木人ハ武士」「おぶった子よりだいたこ」「猪食ったむくい」
Kawanabe Kyôsai (Japanese, 1831–1889)
Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô) (Japanese)
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 Number11.37002
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kaikan sanjû shûnen kinen Kawanabe Kyôsai kinen bijutsukan cat. (2008), p. 103, #0772 (sheet of 4)
DescriptionMFA impressions:
Uncut sheet: 11.45393.11
Right side only: 11.22655, 11.37002, 11.45800.43
Left side only: 11.37003
Signed Kyôsai
狂斎
Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
改印:なし
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.