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Tora II of Nakamori-ken in Gathering Spring Herbs (Wakanatsumi), from the series Costume Parade of the Shimanouchi Quarter (Shimanouchi nerimono)


「島之内ねり物 若菜摘 中森軒 二代目とら」
Gochôtei Sadahiro (Japanese, active about 1830–1850)
Publisher: Tenmaya Kihei (Tenki) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1836 (Tenpô 7), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 3 x 25.8 cm (1 3/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38813
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 125; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 3 (2001), #093; Keyes, Hirosada (1984), #3; Keyes 1973, #277a (no photo)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.824.14, 11.26584, 11.38813, *11.38814 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.38815 (deaccessioned in 2019), 17.3214.12

From a collective series by Hokuei, Hokuju, Sadahiro, Sadanobu, and Shigeharu.
Signed Gochôtei Sadahiro ga
五蝶亭貞広画
Marks Artist's seal: Sada
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.