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No. 5, Koguruma, from the series An Excellent Selection of Thirty-six Noted Courtesans (Meigi sanjûroku kasen)


「名妓三十六佳撰 小車 第五」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1861 (Man'en 2/Bunkyû 1), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.1 × 25 cm (14 3/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.42797
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné C's Ukiyo-e Museum, http://homepage2.nifty.com/ukiyo-e/index.html
Signed Ôju Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche
応需豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks Censor's seal: Chicken 8 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:酉八改
彫師:なし
Inscriptions小車

此遊女 猫をこのみ わが子のごとく あいせしが
いかにして ある夜より そのねこの 行末をしら
ず これを ふかくなげき ついに やまひのとこに
ふしぬ ある人 客となり 是をあはれみ つちを
もて猫をつくり これをおくりけるに その
ねこ さきの猫に 少しもたがわず その猫の
かゑりし心地して いとよろこびしに しだいに
病も こころよくなりければ その いわ井着
はおり 唄の上に しきせをいだすとて
よめる句に

  想猫に 見せばや紋の かげひなた

 梅星 栄中 記
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.