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Moon and Cuckoo (Tsuki ni hototogisu), from the series Collection of Fashionable Pairings, New Edition for the Year of the Rabbit (Fûryû aioi zukushi, U no haru shinpan)


「風流相生尽 月に時鳥」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Ezakiya Kichibei (Tenjudō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1831 (Tenpô 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 25 cm (14 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.42267
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The series: Schaap, Kunisada (exh. cat., 2016), checklist 1-75
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.42267 (reprint, 1831), 34.536 (original edition, 1820s)

The series was first published in the 1820s and reprinted by the same publisher in 1831, with an expanded series title.
Signed Kôchôrô Kunisada ga
香蝶楼国貞画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.