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狂斎百図 「夫婦けんくはいむもくわぬ」「むくろしゅはみがいても白くならぬ」「我がゑい楽の釜たらい」
When a Married Couple Fight the Dog Won't Take A Bite (Fûfu genka wa inu mo kuwanu), However You Scrub Them Black Soapnuts Don't Turn White (Mukuroshu wa migaite mo shiroku naranu), There's No Place LIke Home Even If the Kettle Doubles as a Tub (Waga ei raku no kama tarai), from the series One Hundred Pictures by Kyôsai (Kyôsai hyakuzu)
狂斎百図 「夫婦けんくはいむもくわぬ」「むくろしゅはみがいても白くならぬ」「我がゑい楽の釜たらい」
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); 18.7 x 12.6 cm (7 3/8 x 4 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37003
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kaikan sanjû shûnen kinen Kawanabe Kyôsai kinen bijutsukan cat. (2008), p. 103, #0772 (sheet of 4); Tokita, E de tanoshimu Edo no kotowaza (2005), pp. 45 and 246; Oikawa, Clark & Forrer, Comic Genius: Kawanabe Kyôsai/Kyôsai giga kyôga ten (1996), #122-1
DescriptionMFA impressions:
Uncut sheet: 11.45393.11
Right side only: 11.22655, 11.37002, 11.45800.43
Left side only: 11.37003
Uncut sheet: 11.45393.11
Right side only: 11.22655, 11.37002, 11.45800.43
Left side only: 11.37003
Signed
Kyôsai
狂斎
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
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.
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.