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No. 507, from the series The Post Dispatch Newspaper (Yûbin hôchi shinbun)


「郵便報知新聞 第五百七号」
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)
Publisher: Ebisuya Shôshichi (Kinshôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1875 (Meiji 8), April

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.4 x 24.3 cm (13 15/16 x 9 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39800
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ing & Schaap, Beauty & Violence (1992), #25.16 (no photo)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.37737, 11.39800

The indecorous courtship of a 73 year old woman and a 68 year old man. The man's son separated the couple, thinking it was indecent for people of their age to carry on a love affair.
Signed Taiso Yoshitoshi
大蘇芳年
Marks Censor's seal: Boar 4
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Ta
改印:亥四
彫師:彫多
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.