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Title page (?) for Osana Genji [Azuma no hatsutabi], Part 2, Vol. 2 (Nihen, gekan)


「おさなげけんじ 二編 下巻」 見返しヵ
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Tôkaidô
Japanese
Edo period
1848 (Kôka 5/Kaei 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (key block); ink on paper
Dimensions 15.9 x 10.8 cm (6 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38151
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The book: Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 1 (1989), p. 640
DescriptionAuthor: Ryûtei Tanehiko II (=Ryûtei Senka I, 1804-68) 柳亭種彦(二代目)、笠亭仙果(初代)
Signed Ryûtei saku, Ichiyûsai ga
笠亭、一勇斎画
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.