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「玉屋うち小紫 蔦屋内三しう」
Courtesans Parading at New Year: Komurasaki of the Tamaya and Sanshû of the Tsutaya (Tamaya uchi Komurasaki, Tsutaya uchi Sanshû)
「玉屋うち小紫 蔦屋内三しう」
Gokyô (Japanese, active about 1789–1801)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1790 (Kansei 2)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e; benigirai-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban diptych; 39.1 x 51.8 cm (15 3/8 x 20 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14959-60
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA, Golden Age (2010), #125; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan 4, V&A I (1989), pl. 113 (R); Hizô 9, Brussels, pl. 186 (L); Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Gokyô list, #s 3-4; Brandt, Hosoda Eishi (1977), fig. 534 (R), list no. D24; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #C24, pl. CXXIV
DescriptionDiptych (or two sheets of incomplete triptych?): 11.14959 (right), 11.14960 (left)
MFA impressions: 11.14959-60 (diptych), 21.8406 (left sheet only)
MFA impressions: 11.14959-60 (diptych), 21.8406 (left sheet only)
Signed
Eishi monjin Gokyô ga (on each sheet)
栄之門人五郷画
栄之門人五郷画
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.