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No. 7, Momiji no ga, from the series Lady Murasaki's Genji Cards (Murasaki Shikibu Genji karuta)


「紫式部げんじかるた 紅葉の賀 七」
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 × 24.7 cm (14 3/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.44499
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Haubner, Die Macht des Bogens (2014), p. 159; Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga (2004), #42-7; the series: Marks et al., Genji's World (2012), list #G360 (no photos)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.21719, 11.44473, 11.44474, 11.44475, 11.44499
Signed Baichôrô Kunisada ga, in toshidama cartouches
梅蝶楼国貞画(年玉枠)
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Snake 1
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、巳正
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.