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A Doll Couple with Slender Eyebrows Like Peach Blossoms (Hina myôto momo no hosomayu)


「雛女夫桃の細眉」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1847–50 (Kôka 4–Kaei 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.3 x 74.3 cm (14 5/16 x 29 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.43538a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks et al., Genji's World (2012), list #G145 (no photo)
Signed Kôchôrô Toyokuni ga (on right sheet), Kunisada aratame Toyokuni ga (on center sheet), Ichiyôsai Toyokuni ga (on left sheet)
香蝶楼豊国画(年玉印) 国貞舎豊国画(年玉印) 一陽斎豊国画(年玉印)
Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Murata
No blockcutter's mark
改印:米良、村田
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.