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Felicitations to Genji on the Occasion of the Shichigosan Celebration (Oiwai Shichigosan Genji no kotobuki)


「御祝 七五三 源氏の壽」
Japanese
Edo period
1867 (Keiô 3), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36 × 70.7 cm (14 3/16 × 27 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38991a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks et al., Genji's World (2012), list #G405 (no photo)
Signed Kunisada ga (on right and left sheets), Baichôrô Kunisada ga (on center sheet)
国貞画 梅蝶楼国貞画
Marks Censor's seal: Hare 2 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Horikô Kanegorô (on right sheet)
改印:卯弐改
彫師:彫工兼五郎
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.