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「明治十五壬午季秋絵画共進会出品画藤原保昌月下弄笛図応需」
Fujiwara no Yasumasa Playing the Flute by Moonlight, a Painting Shown at the Exhibition for the Advancement of Painting in Autumn 1882 (Meiji jûgo mizunoe uma kishû Kaiga Kyôshinkai shuppinga Fujiwara no Yasumasa gekka fue o moteasobu zu, ôju)
「明治十五壬午季秋絵画共進会出品画藤原保昌月下弄笛図応需」
Japanese
Meiji era
1883 (Meiji 16), February 12
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban triptych; 37.5 x 73.5 cm (14 3/4 x 28 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20238-40
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Newland, Yoshitoshi (2011), #81; Shioya, "Katsureki...," in Ukiyo-e geijutsu 147 (2004), p. 30, fig. 1; Shibuya Kuritsu Shôtô Bijutsukan, Musha-e (2003), #27; Ing & Schaap, Beauty & Violence (1992), #43; Ukiyo-e taikei 12 (1976), #27-29
DescriptionTriptych: 11.20238 (left), 11.20239 (center), 11.20240 (right)
Signed
Taiso Yoshitoshi sha (on left sheet only)
大蘇芳年写
大蘇芳年写
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 – d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)
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.
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.