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Children at Play: Games of the Four Seasons (Kodomo asobi shiki no tawamure)


「子供遊 四季の戯」
Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japanese, 1847–1915)
Publisher: Kiya Sakutarô (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1873 (Meiji 6), September

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 35.3 x 47.1 cm (13 7/8 x 18 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.42042a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asai, Kinsei nishiki-e sesôshi 4 (1936), p. 36
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.42041a-b, 11.42042a-b

According to Asai 1936 (color insert before p. 1), Nikutei Karyô was a pseudonym of Kiyochika.
Signed Nikutei Karyô ga
肉亭夏良画
Marks Censor's seal: Chicken 9
No blockcutter's mark
Artist's seal: Chika
改印:酉九
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.