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DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012

Karasaki, from an untitled series of Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei)


近江八景 唐崎
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Maru-Tsuru (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1825 (Bunsei 8)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38 x 25.5 cm (14 15/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39662
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The series: Schaap, Kunisada (exh. cat., 2016), checklist 1-55
DescriptionMFA impressions: *11.39662 (deaccessioned in 2012), 49.1284
Signed Ôju Kunisada ga
応需国貞画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
InscriptionsPoem: Karasaki no/ matsu ...
「からさきのまつかひありしわれ★のなみたは夜ルの雨となりても 山東庵京山」
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.