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Enjoying Cool Air on a Pleasure Boat, a Pentaptych (Suzumibune gomai tsuzuki)


「涼舟 五枚続」
Eishôsai Chôki (Japanese, active about 1780–1810)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1793–95 (Kansei 5–8)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban pentaptych; 37.5 x 124.1 cm (14 3/4 x 48 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14840-4
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Printed Treasures (2008), #82; Genshoku ukiyo-e dai hyakka jiten 5 (1980), #39; TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 2 (1962), #s 2148-52; Ukiyo-e zenshû 3 (1956), fig. 62; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #457
DescriptionPentaptych: 11.14840 (center left), 11.14841 (center), 11.14842 (center right), 11.14843 (right), 11.14844 (left)

MFA impressions: *11.14831 (R only, deaccessioned in 2012), 11.14834VR (11.14834, 11.23012-5), 11.14835 (CL only), 11.14840-4, 21.7524-8
Signed Chôki ga (on each sheet)
長喜画
Marks No censor's seal
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.