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Night Rain at Naka-no-chô (Naka-no-chô yau): Actor Ôtani Shidô (Ôtani Tomoemon V) as the Geisha Oshizu, from the series Eight Views of Edo (Edo hakkei no uchi)


「江戸八景ノ内 仲町夜雨 げい者おし☆」「大谷紫道」 (五代目大谷友右衛門)
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Japanese
Edo period–Meiji era
1868 (Keiô 4/Meiji 1), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.1 × 24.2 cm (14 3/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39863
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 500-3301
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.39863, 11.40507
Signed Kunichika hitsu
国周筆
Marks Censor's seal: Dragon 7 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:辰七改
彫師:なし
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.