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Water Plantain (Mizu-aoi): Actor Bandô Hikosaburô V as Satô Yomoshichi, from the series Thirty-six Selected Flowers and Grasses (Sanjûrokkasô no uchi)


「三十六花艸の内 水葵」「さとう与茂七 ばん東ひこ三郎」(五代目)
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Yorozuya Zentarô (Manzen)
Japanese
Edo period
1865 (Genji 2/Keiô 1), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.2 x 24.5 cm (14 1/4 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.44413
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 100-8810
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.44412, 11.44413
Signed Kunichika ga
国周画
Marks Censor's seal: Ox 6 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:丑六改
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.