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Imamurasaki and Shōshō Dancing a Modern Version of the Otokomai at the House of the Golden Vase in the New Yoshiwara (Shin Yoshiwara Kinpeirō, Imayō otokomai no zu, Imamurasaki, Shōshō)


「新吉原 金瓶楼」 「今やうおとこ舞之図」 「今紫」  「瀟湘」
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Yorozuya Magobei (Ōkura Magobei, Kin'eidō) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Ōta Utakichi (Hori Uta) (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1870 (Meiji 3), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ōban triptych; 36 × 70.2 cm (14 3/16 × 27 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41776a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Other prints of this subject: Asai, Kinsei nishiki-e sesōshi 3 (1935), pp. 38-41
Signed Kunichika hitsu (on right sheet)
国周筆
Marks Censor's seal: Horse 4 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Ōta Uta
改印:午四改
彫師:彫太田卯多
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.