Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Rat (Ne): The Kôshiya Restaurant in Asakusa; Actor Onoe Kikugorô V, poetry name Baikô, as Nikki Danjô; from the series Twelve Drinks at Restaurants: A Story in One Gulp (Kaiseki Jûnishu Hitokuchi Banashi)


「会席十二酒一ト口噺 子 浅草 甲子家」 「五代め尾上菊五郎 俳名梅幸」
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Sawamuraya Seikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1870 (Meiji 3), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.3 × 23.6 cm (13 7/8 × 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.40482
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Kunichika hitsu
国周筆
Marks Censor's seal: Horse 5 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Uemura Hori Yasu tô
改印:午五改
彫師:上邑彫安刀
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.