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Yabuhara Kenkô, from the series Tales of the Floating World in Eastern Brocade (Azuma nishiki ukiyo kôdan, glossed Azuma no hana ukiyo kôdan)


「東錦浮世稿談(あずまのはなうきよこうだん) 十立齋文車」 「薮原検校」
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)
Publisher: Ômiya Kyûjirô (Kiyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1867 (Keiô 3), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 30.8 x 24.8 cm (12 1/8 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37760
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ing & Schaap, Beauty & Violence (1992), #20.3 (no photo)
DescriptionText by Kanagaki Robun.
Signed Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi ga
一魁斎芳年画
Marks Censor's seal: Hare 9 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:卯九改
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.