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Night Scene on a Balcony Overlooking a Pond with Carp


夜の鯉池
Japanese
Edo period
1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37.1 × 74.8 cm (14 5/8 × 29 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.43560a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks et al., Genji's World (2012), list #G189 (no photo; descriptive title "Before a Zig-zag Bridge")
DescriptionMFA impressions: 00.1070 (center sheet only, pub. Wakasaya), 11.29766VR (11.29766, 11.29774, 11.29775; pub. Sumiyoshiya), 11.43560a-c (complete triptych, Sumiyoshiya), 2009.5020.3 (right sheet only, Sumiyoshiya)

Marks (2012) says that the original publisher was Iseya Kanekichi and both the Wakasaya and Sumiyoshiya editions are reissues.
Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche (on each sheet)
豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Watanabe
No blockcutter's mark
改印:米良、渡辺
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.