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The Daishichi Restaurant in Imado, with the Geisha Kogiku of Saruwaka-machi, from the series Thirty-six Restaurants of Tokyo (Tôkei sanjûroku kaiseki)


「東けい三十六会席  猿楽町小菊」「今戸 大七」
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Yorozuya Magobei (Ôkura Magobei, Kin'eidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1870 (Meiji 3), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.1 × 24.8 cm (14 3/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.40522
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asai, Kinsei nishiki-e sesôshi 3 (1935), p. 31
Signed Kunichika hitsu
国周筆
Marks Censor's seal: Horse 11 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:午十一改
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.